Posts by tsotsi

I`m a bit confused about the multiplier stuck at 6x, mine has always been 6x??. Attachment 14789

Well what I did first was to get everything working with mediadirect. Then create a fourth PRIMARY fat32 partition BEFORE the extended partion. Restore the ghost image of dellrestore and copy your new windows image to the Fat32...

if you used the mediadirect cd to partition the drive then you should have: pbr1: fat16 47mb ( DE ) dellutility pbr2: ntfs partition ( 07 ) extended ( 0F ) remaining space + pbr3: 2gb ( DD ) mediadirect you will have to add another...

I would use pbrfix to find out what the partition codes are. The utility/diag partition should be DE (fat16) and about 47mb. A dellrestore partion should be DB (fat32x). The mediadirect partiton is part of an extended partition (0F)...

If it was the dell restore partition then It should have shown up as "unknown partition". I found that after Installing Vista the dellrestore and mediadirect no longer worked. Apparently you have to obtain a fix from the dell...

Quote: Originally Posted by extra-ordinary_ I've got an image of my restore partition minus my OS image, but it's the Symantec 10 one - 270MB. I've tried using the smaller default Dell image (both utility and...

Quote: Originally Posted by multiplex77 Hi everyone, I have a Dell Inspiron 6400 running on Windows XP Pro. Recently I installed a wonderful A4 Tech USB mouse. But an irritating problem that has cropped up. Now my...

Hey All, This is my first post. I`ve managed to repair the HD partitions on my Dell Inspiron 6400. However try as I might I cannot get the DellRestore partition to boot, looking at it it seems damaged, not all the files are...