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    XPS M1330 and no "repair your computer" after F8

    Discussion in 'Dell XPS and Studio XPS' started by podles, Nov 22, 2009.

  1. podles

    podles Newbie

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    I need to restore my factory default system (My XPS was shipped with vista business).
    After hitting F8 during boot I have several options but no "repair your comptuer".
    Maybe it is because I installed Ubuntu as a second system (I didn't check if the option was there before installing Ubuntu).

    The second fact is that since couple of weeks ago when I access "my computer" in windows I see two additional partitions that weren't visible before: it is d :(RECOVERY) and F :(MEDIADIRECT). To be frank it was after I accidently spilled a cup of espresso onto the keyboard - after cleaning and drying the hardware computer works almost perfectly but has this two partitions and "hibernate" option doesn't work.

    I googled a bit and found that Dell uses MS imagex software to do the recovery. On the "recovery" partition I found an image "factory.wim" but have no idea how to apply the image. The imagex software is there also but it doesn't work from windows. There is also a program "PCrestore.exe" but it doesn't work from inside windows...

    Should I make a bootable pendrive and try the imagex from DOS? Or maybe there is some other option?

    Thanks for any suggestions.
    podles
     
    podles, Nov 22, 2009
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  2. gaah

    gaah Notebook Deity

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    You need to boot from your Vista Business DVD and choose the repair option. From there you can attempt to restore the image.

    If you need to restore the Vista bootloader, look into using the command fixboot from the recovery console. fixmbr might be another useful command. These commands might be useful to restore the original bootloader so you can use the F8 recovery option again, and restore the hard drive to factory settings.
     
    gaah, Nov 22, 2009
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