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Can't access restore partition -dell

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harrkev

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So, my brother-in-law brought me his second-hand Dell Precision-330. The Win-2K gives an instand BSOD on boot. So, I need to reinstall everything. He got this 2nd hand from his community college (why a college would sell a perfectly good 1.4GHz P4 is beyond me).

Using Knoppix, I found two partitions. Partition #2 is Windows, formattet NTFS. Partition #1 says that it is FAT16, and the file names look scrambled. The problem is that I need to boot into that partition, and I don't know how.

Since it is just FAT (and only a few hundred megabytes), I thought that I could just use a boot floppy to access it -- no luck. I also tried making the partition active using Qparted. Still no luck.

The partition is there, but how do I use it?

Thanks.
 
Originally posted by: harrkev
So, my brother-in-law brought me his second-hand Dell Precision-330. The Win-2K gives an instand BSOD on boot. So, I need to reinstall everything. He got this 2nd hand from his community college (why a college would sell a perfectly good 1.4GHz P4 is beyond me).

Using Knoppix, I found two partitions. Partition #2 is Windows, formattet NTFS. Partition #1 says that it is FAT16, and the file names look scrambled. The problem is that I need to boot into that partition, and I don't know how.

Since it is just FAT (and only a few hundred megabytes), I thought that I could just use a boot floppy to access it -- no luck. I also tried making the partition active using Qparted. Still no luck.

The partition is there, but how do I use it?

Thanks.
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That is probably just the Dell Diagnostics partition and you will still need an install cd to reinstall the OS. A few meg on a FAT16 partition is not the restore that you think it is.

pcgeek11
 
The partition actually has over 300MB of data. That *COULD* be enough for a restore partition of Win-2K.

Does anybody have a similar system from Dell that can tell me how to restore Win-2K. Do you need a restore CD, or do you run the special partition?
 
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