hmm so wht i have now is a 5gb unpartitioned space.
Using parttition magic ill make one 3 gbfat32x for dellrestore assign it some drive letter for the time being.
Then the other drive,what should i do about it?As when i installed md3 in the beg it made 2 hdds for me and another mediadirect drive.
and it was just a 2gb drive.

so shall i format it again and partition it into a 3gigs and a 2gigs drive respectively?

I have been able to get my hands on a backup from another dell xps m1210 for the dellutil and dellrestore but not for the media direct any way on how i cld get tht one?

Ill just use ghost to transfer those images ot the respective drives right?

Thanks

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 partition
pbr4: fat32 ( 0C )
to contain the image file. Size dpendant on the size of the image.

welll....
that kinda was true.
but i used partition magic to create a partition of the image size and it ended up merging the media direct and the dellrestore partition.

also all i could do was to add a partition before the media direct drive.and not after further i could not modify the media direct partition in partition magic.

So now will it be allright if i manually create those 2 partitions make both of them extended and then use dsrfix to fix the mbr?

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 partition.
Then when you use dsrfix the extended/mediadirect partition will still be pbr3 and the new fat32 partition will be pbr4, run dsrfix /pbr4 to make sure everything is ok then run dsrfix /pbr4 /f and answer "y" to everything.

I have a Dell 700m. But I lost the recovery partitions and I don't have CD too. Where can I have the Dell Ultility partition to recreate the Ctrl F11 functions? Thanks very much.

can someone send me the dsr files as a .gho file. Mine was ruined after trying multiboot xp/vista. I would really like to have it all fixed again...

ftp://ftp.symantec.com/public/englis...355.Update.exe

Looks like everyone can update to the corporate DOS version of Ghost now. Just download/extract the above file from Symantec then extract and look under update/DOS...

Hi there!

I would also like to have a copy of that dell utility & dell restore partitioin image you got from gombal.

I wanted to restore the dell utility & dell restore partition to my friend's laptop using the methods you tried. I hope it will work too with my friend's laptop.

Hope to receive the image file soon. Thank you very much.

@ Raph_brega,

Just send you the images, hope you can use them.If you need any further help just pm me.


It's been a while since i visited this forum, not much spare time :-)
Got rid of my Fujitsu notebook (sold it) and i have 2 Dell Vostro 1000 notebooks coming my way, they were part of a mobile phone offer.
Both with Vista Basic so there will be lots to play around with when they arrive.
Still got the Dell Inspiron 8000, when the other 2 arrive i will try to get a Vista Basic Lite (vLite'ed) version on it.I will also try to create the same restore function on it as the Vostro's so first i will have to try to make a wim file of the Lite version.But it won't be fast cuase my work is taking up just about all of my time and my wife and kids also want to see me sometimes :-)

@ gombal

Thank you very much for sending the files. I hope I will succeed on getting back the functionality of the CTRL+F11 for Dell.

I will surely pm you can if I ran into some problems. I truly appreciate it.

Hope you will also post the procedures for the restore function for vista once you completed it on your vostros !!! :-)
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I must be a moron. I have tried this so many times and still no no avail I cant get this to work.

I have 4 primary partions. Dell restore is the last partition. When I do the dsrfix /pbr4 I get a fatal error saying that pbr4 is not FAT32. But it is. I did the instuctions exactly as shown. What else can I be doing wrong? Can anyone please help me out?

@ Funtime4Me!<SCRIPT type=text/javascript> vbmenu_register("postmenu_2906186", true); </SCRIPT> I can barely remember this but is ptedit showing all your partitions correctly? And isn't there two dsrfix /pbr options?

I'm pulling my hair out with this one...

Brand new Vista M1330. Before starting the PC for the first time, I decided to Ghost 11.0 image the entire drive. In this way I presumed I'd be getting the drive imaged in it's 'sealed' state (if there is such a thing on the Vista machines). Anyhow, I then put a different HDD into the laptiop and put this image on this new hard drive. PC reboots no problem after the image restore process, and proceeds to boot into windows like it is the first time - Eula, etc. The Dell image installation works OK except for one problem -
when I do a Dell Factory Restore from the repair menu, the Dell image process completes, the PC reboots, but then it just goes into a cycle of continually rebooting. It's like when the HDD or MBR is being detected, it runs into problems, and the PC reboots to repeat the process all over again. Does anyone know where I'm going wrong?


Edit: Just noticed another problem - Media direct button boots into Windows.

Hi i have a vostro 1400 running xp home that came with a fresh install which didnt have a recovery or utility partition. Doesnt anyone have the images? and any pointer in getting media direct to work for this system also? appreciate the help.

Is it possible to download the files on the Dell restore partition minus the image? Accidentally messed up that Dell restore partition on my Inspiron 9300 and would like to rebuild this partition with my own image.

Is there anyone can send me the images of DellRestore and DellUtility.
Thanks