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    Restoring recovery partition from DVD

    Discussion in 'Dell' started by techie81, Mar 16, 2009.

  1. techie81

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    I made a DVD as a backup of the recovery partition on an Inspiron 9300. When I run recover.exe, I can see the *.gho file and I can select it. But for some reason, it says it's 76GB in size. I can't select individual partitions so I can't copy it to the second partition. I know it's not absolutely necessary to have it but the old hard drive was crashing.
     
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    elijahRW Notebook Deity

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    If you could be a bit more clear on this we might be able to better assist you.
     
    elijahRW, Mar 16, 2009
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    techie81 Newbie

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    I wanted to make a backup of the DSR partition of an Inspiron 9300 on DVD. I followed the instructions from www.goodells.net/dellrestore/. I tried doing a test copy on the laptop with the recovery DVD. When I select the Ghost image from the DVD, it's only allowing me to copy the image to the entire disk rather than a partition.

    It's weird because just a moment ago, it gave me the option to choose the partition.
     
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    I'm sorry. I think it was user error on my part.
     
    techie81, Mar 16, 2009
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