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    inspiron 1454 factory settings

    Discussion in 'Dell' started by roxey64, Mar 1, 2011.

  1. roxey64

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    can some one please help i have the above laptop with a failed hard drive it is stuck in a start up loop, i have tried to set it back to factory settings but when it reboots it gets to the same place it got stuck at before i.e. loading windows then a blue screen then back to the beginning as if I have pushed a reset button , so i have bought a new drive the same size 250 gb to install what i want to do is copy the factory installation partition and just run that to get it back to where it was before I can see the old drive on my pc but don’t know how to go about copying the right files over to the new drive to get it working again , can some one with the knowledge please help :(
     
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    Tsunade_Hime such bacon. wow

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    You would have to do that with imaging software like Ghost/Acronis.
     
    Tsunade_Hime, Mar 1, 2011
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    i have both those but dont know what files to copy over
     
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    Just image the old drive onto the new one. If your old drive is failing, files can be corrupt and it will be image corrupt files onto the new one.
     
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    the problem is i have what looks like two parts to the drive a recovery part that i have copied over and one called os that i have not copied over if i insert the new drive in the laptop i get a message saying bootmbr is missing
     
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