I do see the Recovery E drive, therefore assuming it is still installed. Yes, but with the original Windows 7 recovery Dell partition, to have a. Dell Restore to factory state (Windows 7, recovery partition) Ask Question 1. I have a Dell XPS with Windows 7 and I've been told that using recovery partitions is easier to do when you don't have an OS disc. So I backed up and booted to the F8 menu to select the restore option, but it isn't there. This is a 10.89GB Healthy (System, Active, Primary Partition). No drive letter. No file system listed under Disk Management, but Easeus Partition Master identifies it as NTFS with 6.7GB used. Is this a Windows 7 partition or a Dell partition. Dell DataSafe local backup is unable to detect.

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I bought a Dell Studio XPS 8100 desktop back in 2010, which had Windows 7 installed and came with a partition for Dell Factory Restore.

After having installed Windows 10, what happened to that partition? Did the installation get rid of it? If not and I were to use it to do a Dell Factory Restore, would it 'reinstall' Windows 7?

Sorry if this is a duplicate of a question somewhere, I didn't see one exactly like this asking about Windows 10 upgrade and Dell's Recovery partition.

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The recovery partition will not be touched nor upgraded during this process. If you did a factory restore, you would end up with Windows 7.

From what I am seeing, if there is not a system partition on the drive, only the Dell recovery partition & OS partition, then Windows 10 will alter the boot folder of that partition. This effects the PE recovery environment & will break the factory recovery. Even after reapplying the Factory.wim of windows 7 and it blue screens, Windows 10 PE recovery environment will start & not help with the start up issues. I'm presently trying to undo all of this on a Dell Inspiron laptop at present.

I don't think this will happen if there is a 100MB system partition on the drive as this is where the Windows 10 recovery environment will install (in the boot folder). Thus leaving the Dell Recovery partition untouched leaving the F11 function in tact to be able to factory install the OS that shipped with the laptop. Isn't the digital life wonderful!!!

If you run into a problem where you cannot access your recovery partition, or the partition is deleted, you can run a tool called DSRFIX and it should restore the recovery partition.

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The Recovery Partition in a Dell Inspiron allows users to restore their laptop to factor condition. Restoring the laptop can overcome serious damage inflicted by a virus or other malware infection and can also smooth over system errors that may arise. The factory partition for Dell Inspiron computer is the Dell DataSafe Local Backup 2.0 program that can be accessed from the boot options menu. Starting up the recovery partition takes a few steps that can be completed by novice computer users.

I had the same problem /message.open up the phone and pull the sim card,sd card and remove the mid frame.Just above the usb charge connector you will see two small gold contacts that touch what i believe is the temp sensor which is located in the mid frame assembly.Clean the two contacts on that sensor with a q tip dampened with rubbing alcohol.You may also have to be careful and slightly bend upward those two springy contacts that touch the temp sensor.Hope this works for you it fixed my S4.

Open the Advanced Boot Options Menu on the Dell Inspiron laptop. Close any programs running and shut down the computer. Turn the computer power back on.

Press the 'F8' key once the Dell logo appears on the screen to open the Advanced Boot Options menu. The menu must be accessed before the Windows operating system launches. If Windows starts up, let the operating system load as normal before restarting the computer.

Use the arrow keys to highlight the 'Repair Your Computer' option and press 'Enter' on the keyboard. Click on the 'Next' button and enter the log-in credentials for the administrator account for the computer.

Click on the 'Dell Factory Image Recovery and Data Safe Options' button to start up the recovery partition on Dell Inspiron laptops. Follow the instructions in the recovery partition wizard to restore the Dell to factory settings.

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