Don Y posted for all of us...
Look on Dell support site. It's amazing what they gave there (sometimes). It takes a lot of digging to find it. start with the express service code.
OT: Inspiron 6400 MBR image
Jan 15, 2016
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They've already sent me the MD Repair (and *Restore* -- which is more valuable) media. But, it doesn't address the "restore partition" (for Windows). In fact, it doesn't even acknowledge that it exists in the way it partitions the disk!
Dell doesn't provide a means of restoring the "restore partition" on their products. So, you have to cobble together the hooks for the Utility/Diag partition, Media Direct partition, Windows partition
*and* the "non-restorable" restore partition in a way that allows all 4 features (normal boot, diagnostic boot, media direct boot and factory restore boot) to operate from the same MBR/disk image.
Don't you have a set of restore DVDs? With my 5 year old HP, it has a restore image on the drive, but it also prompts you to create from that a set of DVDs that have the restore partition too. Took about
15 mins and 3 DVDs. If you don't have something besides the restore partition, you're just open to being hosed, eg HD fails.Join the Discussion
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