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    How to back up Inspiron 1501 O/S ?

    Discussion in 'Dell' started by Serville, May 21, 2007.

  1. Serville

    Serville Notebook Consultant

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    I ordered this yesterday because of the special price offer. I chose XP Home for O/S. But I just realized that Dell never asked me whether I wanted Recovery CD during configuration. Does Dell have a utility to allow the creation of this recovery CD inside the system ?
     
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    Amber Notebook Prophet NBR Reviewer

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    Dell doesn't do recovery/restore discs. Instead you have two options.
    1.) restore partition - this will turn your HDD back to factory condition assuming you have not made any changes to the Master boot code.

    2.) XP reinstallation disc - this will give you a clean install. You'll have to reinstall the drivers and any software that you want. Dell was sending the XP discs with the systems, but i'm not sure what their policy is right now since Vista came out. If you don't get it, you can contact Dell's Tech Support and request it.
     
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  3. Serville

    Serville Notebook Consultant

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    ic. Thanks.
    At least they provide a restore partition. That's enough for me.
     
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