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    How to use recovery partition of m1330

    Discussion in 'Dell' started by ghawk17, Aug 20, 2007.

  1. ghawk17

    ghawk17 Newbie

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    Hi All,

    I have an m1330 that was shipped incorrectly so was going to play around with it until I get my replacement. My question to you is how to use that recovery partition to recover to factory defaults? I've seen other Dell's you use Ctrl+F11, but that didn't seem to work for me.

    Any help would be appreciated!

    Thanks
     
    ghawk17, Aug 20, 2007
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  2. pjankovic

    pjankovic Newbie

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    its F8 on the vista machines
     
    pjankovic, Aug 20, 2007
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  3. Chuckles

    Chuckles Notebook Consultant

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    The Dell documentation supplied with this computer is wrong. When the message pops up at upper right about pressing F2 or F10, wait a half second and then press F8.

    You can also stay in Vista, go into d: and run imagex.exe from that partition. This is the program that runs when you press F8 and choose the recovery option. Imagex is a command-line imaging program that isn't documented for end-users, but you can find instructions on the web.
     
    Chuckles, Aug 20, 2007
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  4. mlkok98

    mlkok98 Notebook Guru

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    Is there any way to make a bootable disc of the recovery partition?
    I'm trying to dual boot with XP but ran into the problem where XP cannot create anymore partitions? Is there anyway to work around that?
     
    mlkok98, Sep 2, 2007
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