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    Recover diagnostic utility partion?

    Discussion in 'Dell XPS and Studio XPS' started by Rizen7, Jun 22, 2009.

  1. Rizen7

    Rizen7 Notebook Enthusiast

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    I had a problem with overheating with my 1730 so emailed dell and they told me to hold Fn while booting and run a diagnostic test, and after the memory test I "should" have had an option to "TEST SYSTEM" but instead I got a message saying "No diagnostic utility partion identified/found"

    so I may have deleted it :s

    is there a way to recover this?
     
    Rizen7, Jun 22, 2009
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  2. BatBoy

    BatBoy Notebook Nobel Laureate

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    I don't believe you can 'recover' it if you deleted it already. If you decide to reformat your could try this (found it via Google):

    If you dont want to wipe your drive, you can just run the Dell Diagnostics via booting up with a USB Flash Drive. Use this utility to to install the files to a Flash Drive:

    ftp://ftp.us.dell.com/diags/CW1355A0.exe
     
    BatBoy, Jun 22, 2009
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  3. Rizen7

    Rizen7 Notebook Enthusiast

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    sweet, ill give it a try thanks
     
    Rizen7, Jun 22, 2009
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