Plz help with following :-

Dell Vostro 200 / Vista Home Premium

Have just, yet again, (lastime was in July last year), Spinrite 6'd 500gb
Samsung HD501LJ hard-disk, that keeps "losing" its' MBR,
....to bring it back to life - .... i.e. to get it to boot up.

....and would like to create the set of "Factory Restore" disks, that I'm
sure was a facility on the thing when it was new, before imaging all
partitions onto a replacement hard-disk.

Having spent several hours Googling, and wading through pages at Dell
web-site, I can't find out where and how to start the procedure to burn that
set of "factory restore" discs.

I haven't yet explored the Vista / Dell [F8] options during boot-up.

....I have waded through Vistas huge list of "Program" 's and shortcuts, and
can't find anything related to creating "factory restore" cd/dvd discs.

I have performed / created a Vista "File Backup" out to external USB
hard-disk, which seems also to have backed up all the files on the Recovery
Partition D:\ (sigh!)

.....any pointers appreciated,

regards, Richard

"RJK" wrote in message
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Plz help with following :-

Dell Vostro 200 / Vista Home Premium

Have just, yet again, (lastime was in July last year), Spinrite 6'd 500gb
Samsung HD501LJ hard-disk, that keeps "losing" its' MBR,
...to bring it back to life - .... i.e. to get it to boot up.

...and would like to create the set of "Factory Restore" disks, that I'm
sure was a facility on the thing when it was new, before imaging all
partitions onto a replacement hard-disk.

Having spent several hours Googling, and wading through pages at Dell
web-site, I can't find out where and how to start the procedure to burn
that set of "factory restore" discs.

I haven't yet explored the Vista / Dell [F8] options during boot-up.

...I have waded through Vistas huge list of "Program" 's and shortcuts,
and can't find anything related to creating "factory restore" cd/dvd
discs.

I have performed / created a Vista "File Backup" out to external USB
hard-disk, which seems also to have backed up all the files on the
Recovery Partition D:\ (sigh!)

....any pointers appreciated,

regards, Richard



ooops! forget that, have now discovered where to invoke Dell Factory
Restore, not that it's yet needed !

regards, Richard

"RJK" wrote in message
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"RJK" wrote in message
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Plz help with following :-

Dell Vostro 200 / Vista Home Premium

Have just, yet again, (lastime was in July last year), Spinrite 6'd 500gb
Samsung HD501LJ hard-disk, that keeps "losing" its' MBR,
...to bring it back to life - .... i.e. to get it to boot up.

...and would like to create the set of "Factory Restore" disks, that I'm
sure was a facility on the thing when it was new, before imaging all
partitions onto a replacement hard-disk.

Having spent several hours Googling, and wading through pages at Dell
web-site, I can't find out where and how to start the procedure to burn
that set of "factory restore" discs.

I haven't yet explored the Vista / Dell [F8] options during boot-up.

...I have waded through Vistas huge list of "Program" 's and shortcuts,
and can't find anything related to creating "factory restore" cd/dvd
discs.

I have performed / created a Vista "File Backup" out to external USB
hard-disk, which seems also to have backed up all the files on the
Recovery Partition D:\ (sigh!)

....any pointers appreciated,

regards, Richard



ooops! forget that, have now discovered where to invoke Dell Factory
Restore, not that it's yet needed !

regards, Richard


...however, am still unable to create "factory restore discs" !

regards, Richard

You can also look at this tool
http://www.macrium.com/reflectfree.asp

Russ

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"RJK" wrote in message
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"RJK" wrote in message
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Plz help with following :-

Dell Vostro 200 / Vista Home Premium

Have just, yet again, (lastime was in July last year), Spinrite 6'd 500gb
Samsung HD501LJ hard-disk, that keeps "losing" its' MBR,
...to bring it back to life - .... i.e. to get it to boot up.

...and would like to create the set of "Factory Restore" disks, that I'm
sure was a facility on the thing when it was new, before imaging all
partitions onto a replacement hard-disk.

Having spent several hours Googling, and wading through pages at Dell
web-site, I can't find out where and how to start the procedure to burn
that set of "factory restore" discs.

I haven't yet explored the Vista / Dell [F8] options during boot-up.

...I have waded through Vistas huge list of "Program" 's and shortcuts,
and can't find anything related to creating "factory restore" cd/dvd
discs.

I have performed / created a Vista "File Backup" out to external USB
hard-disk, which seems also to have backed up all the files on the
Recovery Partition D:\ (sigh!)

....any pointers appreciated,

regards, Richard



ooops! forget that, have now discovered where to invoke Dell Factory
Restore, not that it's yet needed !

regards, Richard