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    Dell Factory Image Restore gives blank error

    Discussion in 'Dell' started by dell-egate, Nov 10, 2008.

  1. dell-egate

    dell-egate Newbie

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    Got an Inspiron 6400/1505E andI'm trying to restore the factory image from the recovery partition (D). However, when I have booted using F8 and selected the options to get to this option, select next and the mchine says that it's now formatting my C drive I get a blank error message i.e. no text or title. Has anyone ever seen this before, or know what I can do to get around/fix this?

    Thanks very much
     
    dell-egate, Nov 10, 2008
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  2. atbnet

    atbnet Notebook Prophet

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    First, is the recovery partition still intact? Do you have the CD/DVDs to use instead?
     
    atbnet, Nov 11, 2008
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