How can I copy Dell Recovery parttition to another computer?

The way i did it was simple, download dsrfix from Gooddell's site.Burn iso or make bootfloppy.Boot pc from where the partition should come from with the floppy/cd.Run ptedit.Make both the Utility and Restore partition visible.Boot into Windows.Now make images of both partitions.Boot from floppy/cd again and hide both partitions again.This pc is original again.
On the target pc do the following:
If its empty, make 3 primary partitions with your favourite partition manager.
First partiton about 40-50 megs, second what you like, third partition between 3-10 gig, depending on the amount of software you install before making your own custom restore image.
Install Windows to the second partition along with any software you like and Ghost 2003.
Make an image of the Windows partition, you can save it to the third partition.When booted back into Windows, copy or move image to the second partition.
Restore the Utility partition from the image you made of the other pc to the first partition.
Do the same with the Restore partition but then ofcourse to the third partition.
Now boot the dsrfix floppy/cd and run ptedit and change the disktypes to DE and DB.
Run dsrfix and fix any problems.
If it still isn't working you may need to run the mbr program from Goodell's site.
I got it working this way on a Dell 8200, and i'm now trying to get it working on a non Dell laptop, a Fujitsu, and it's looking promising!

I've got an Inspion9400 with 4 partitions default - diag, c:, restore, media Direct. i want to delete the c: partition, make two partitions for vista+XP in its place, and then place a new image of my drive onto the restore partition. Is this possible?




Will DSR have a problem with 5 partitions - restore on the fourth partition?

Take a look at http://www.goodells.net/dellrestore/fixes.htm, at the part of "What if i repartitioned my harddisk?"

Got it working an my old Fujitsu laptop! Ofcourse with my own XP image but it works like a charm
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Gonna see if i also can get it to work on my wife's Inspiron 8000, can't be that hard i think.

Another thing i would really like to try is a dual boot with XP\Vista each on it's own disk (desktop pc, 2 sata disks) but also with the restore function for XP and for Vista, the thing is that i don't exactly know whats on the Vista restore partition cause i haven't got a Dell with Vista pre installed.So if anyone could tell me whats on it exactly (printscreen something like that? ;-) )

Got my system going with my custom restore image using:

XP Disk managent for partitioning,
A Ghost Boot CD I got somewhere (Radified I think) for the imaging.
DSRFIX and PTEDIT CD from Goodells

Starting off I had 5 partitions - Diag, C:, Backup, Restore, HPA Media Direct.

Now I've got 5 partitions - Diag, C:, DATA, Restore, HPA Media Direct.

Followed the guide more or less without any problems. The longest part was building up the windows installation for imaging

I want to do this on another non-Dell machine minus the Diagnostics and Media Direct . Does anyone know how to disable/get rid of the Dell EULA screen?

If you look at Goodell's site about the Dell Utility partition, the sealed state ( http://www.goodells.net/dellutility/sealed.htm ), you will find that the Dell Eula screen is nothing more than a bitmap in the Dell directory on the Utility partition.I haven't tried it but to me it seems if you change the bitmap to a bitmap of your choice (logo of the non Dell brand pc perhaps?) with the same pixel size, 256 colors and filename you will have your own Eula!

Thanks for the help gombal.
Did you remove any unneeded files off the diag partition when installing on the Fujitsu and try and make that partition smaller?

No, the harddisk is 6 gb, so i made a partition of 49 mb for the Utility partition, could be a bit smaller because there's only about 6,5 mb of files on it but.Because i could only gain a few mb's i didn't even think it was worth trying.(I actually didn't even thought about it till just now when i read your question :-))
The Restore partition size depends on the size of the OS image, in my case it's about 1,2 gig so the partition i made is about 1250 mb cause the size of the restore files is about 7,5 mb.So that leaves me 6 gig minus 1300mb is 4.7 gig for the second partition, the OS partition.And since i don't do anything serious with the Fujitsu, it's just for fun/testing stuff i'm not so interested in saving space, especially not because today's harddisks have so much space and the files are only a few mb.The only place to win space is the Restore partition, save the image with best compression and make the partition just a fraction bigger than the image.

Hello everyone.

I have a dell XPSm1210.

Something has gone terribly wrong. All my partitions are intact I am trying to do a Dell System Restore Cntrl+f11. The menu comes up, and it asks me to confirm after that it tells me... Message: A GeneralException occurred Error Number: (36000). And then DSR asks me to reboot.

I used PTEDIT to go in there manually and use recover.exe and the same error comes up. I am pretty sure something is messed up with the symantec recover program if I am getting these errors. I am stuck and I really want to do a recovery, can anyone else share some ideas, on how I can get Ghost to work, please.
Thank you.

Have you ever used ctrl+F11 before and did it work then?
Found this, http://entkb.symantec.com/security/o...214191125.html, although i'd stay away from method 4 described here! Don't know if it's any help or maybe you found it yourself already.
Maybe, don't know how old your notebook is, as a last resort you could give Dell a call???

My Dell come without OS so there are no Recovery option and I have purchase it before two Months ago and I can call Dell because I'm live in Iraq.

Good work everyone, Sorry I have been off the forums for a bit, gettting slammed at work and with my side jobs...

You guys are really taking this to the next level...

Congrats to everyone.

No problem, now figuring out how to make it work with Vista, without an example (i mean, image of the Vista restore partition without the vista wim file) its gonna take a while i think.But nevertheless, still gonna try.
Maybe anyone with ideas or suggestions (image?)
Read the post from kwulabear so it is possible, at least with an image.
Goodell's site offers a little help but i'm not there yet.