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

[Preston Boyington]

Paul Cartwright wrote:
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> 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?..)
> 

on some machines after you format the partition it takes away the
"Ctrl+F11" restore option.  that was the case with this HP.

for Dell machines there is DSRFIX (Dell System Recovery Fix)
http://www.goodells.net/dellrestore/index.htm

i've used it in the past on Dell machines.  i WISH i had thought about
trying Puppy (or DSL/Ubuntu/Knoppix/whatever LiveCD you like) and
GParted before.

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