thetechie
join:2000-10-08
Battle Creek, MI
|  need to restore dell inspiron 1000, no recovery ds
I'm trying to restore a dell 1000 inspiron laptop, but I think that it has a built in partition to restore from.
I'm trying to fix it for a friend and they gave me everything that they got with it. They did not get a dell xp disk or a dell resource disk.
How am I supposed to restore this damn thing. Is there a key that I can press upon boot up that will start the recovery without any extra disk? If not I can install windows xp, but I prefer not to do that if I don't have to.
Thanks for any and all help
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PetePuma
How many lumps do you want
Premium,MVM
join:2002-06-13
Arlington, VA | Re: need to restore dell inspiron 1000, no recover
Interesting. Every Dell I've ever seen came with recovery CDs and not with a recovery partition. |
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RangerTX7
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join:2004-01-29
Austin, TX
| reply to thetechie
I can't say for sure about the 1000. I got an Inspiron 600m in February and ran across the restore instructions in the user's manual. You press CTRL+F11 at boot to initiate it, and it restores from a hidden partition on the hard drive.
I went to my laptop and did a screen capture with the full instructions (attached). You might want to double check Dell's site to see if the same procedure applies to the 1000. Good luck! |
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thetechie
join:2000-10-08
Battle Creek, MI | thanks so much, I wil try it and post back |
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thetechie
join:2000-10-08
Battle Creek, MI
| It worked perfectly.
I thought that the key was f10 or f11, but I would have never guessed that you would have had to press the ctrl key also to activate it.
thanks again
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