[ale] there and back again (an HP laptop saga)

[Paul Cartwright]

On Tue October 13 2009, Preston Boyington wrote:
> Oh, in Windows I hid the Restore partition from the system using the
> Drive Manager.  I plan on burning the Restore partition to a DVD in case
> the drive itself ever fails.  That way we can put the factory OS on the
> new hard drive.

I just something similar to my wifes ( Dell) laptop.. I was looking through 
the Dell DOCS that said to go to :
start-dell-accessories restore OS
well, there was no dell-accessories group, but I was able to restore using 
some magic command at the boot menu ( F8? F10?..)

but that is a good idea to burn the restore partition to a DVD.. I didn't do 
that on my older XPS laptop that I set to dual-boot.. I know the restore 
partition is still there..

thanks for the tip!

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Paul Cartwright
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