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    Recreate the F8 screen during boot up

    Discussion in 'Gateway and eMachines' started by josmol, Feb 15, 2008.

  1. josmol

    josmol Notebook Consultant

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    Is there a way to recreate the Repair Your Computer option that appears when you press F8 during the initial boot process? And by recreate it I mean so that it uses the recovery partition files to do it's thing.

    My desire is to install my version of Vista Ultimate fresh but keep the repair partition intact. If for some unforseeable reason I needed to restore the computer to 'factory install' settings the F8 Repair Your Computer options works quite nicely. I'm sure the back DVD(s) I made would work well to recreate the factory install but that repair partition just saves me from having to carry around the backup DVDs.
     
    josmol, Feb 15, 2008
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