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Need help with formatting Hard Disk of Inspiron 8600
Hey there all!
Ehm, since im not really great with computers and stuff, please go easy on me...
I am the owner of an inspiron 8600, but i have no recovery cd... I have heard some people talk about a partition?
How could I acces that partition so i could format my hard drive and install everyting again?
This also brings me to another question; the only cd I have with an Operating System on it is a brown cd. Which I think can't be used to re-install, since it had to be run in windows (I guess....)
could you please help me?
Kind regards,
Adriaan
- Go here:
http://support.dell.com/support/topics/global.aspx/support/software_reinstall/en/index?c=us&cs=19&l=en&s=dhs&~ck=mn
and select which OS you plan to restore. That will tell you how to go about restoring your OS.
If your laptop was bought after July 2004, you will have a restore partition which can be accessed via a specific key combination at the boot time (on the inspiron 1150 it's CTRL+F11).
Hope this helps.
Stuart - Wow! Thanks for the swift reply!!However when i select my configuration it gives me the following msg:there is no on-line software reinstall documentation available for the above Dell System, Operating System, and Component Category combination using the Software Reinstall Guide. Please check the original documentation and user's manuals that accompanied your Dell computer.
As for the Control thing, I have a Insp. 8600, do you know if there is a key similar to that for it?
Kind regards
- Ah. I'm not sure about that. I think that providing you don't modify the hidden partitions you **should** be alright.
My father bought a new Inspiron 1150 a couple of weeks ago and i'm seeking a similar answer.
This is the thread i've started:
http://forums.us.dell.com/supportforums/board/message?board.id=insp_harddrive&message.id=38643
Stuart, Okay, I'll start following that thread as well...
What happened with the good old days where you just popped in a Recovery CD and rebooted and you could walk away for a while and come back and you just had to reinstall the drivers? That was so easy and handy, why change it?
the problem is that I would like to format my HD first and after that install XP again.
Maybe I already messed up big time, due to the fact that I already reinstalled XP once... Hoping that it would format my HD first. But it didnt.
Is that a problem?
Thanks again for replying so quickly
Stuart_O
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Posted January 16th, 2005 19:00
http://support.dell.com/support/topics/global.aspx/support/kb/en/document?c=us&cs=19&DN=1086405&type=SRG&l=en&s=dhs
And this link talks about restoring the laptop using the Symantec Utility.
http://support.dell.com/support/topics/global.aspx/support/kb/en/document?dn=1090151
Stuart,