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auntiej · 11-28-2007, 05:10 AM

I have a dell inspiron, and unless you have ever formatted your hard drive you should have a utility partition and recovery partition. If you press F12 when you boot the notebook you should get to a diagnostics partition where you can run the diagnostics; if you ever want your notebook to be as it was when you received it you can press CTRL F11 at boot but be warned, all of your data/picture/music files would be gone. Some people suggest using the XP disk and doing a repair install.

11-28-2007, 05:10 AM	#3 (permalink)
auntiej Registered User Join Date: Aug 2006 Posts: 268 OS: xp	Re: Dell Inspiron Problem - No Idea What To Do I have a dell inspiron, and unless you have ever formatted your hard drive you should have a utility partition and recovery partition. If you press F12 when you boot the notebook you should get to a diagnostics partition where you can run the diagnostics; if you ever want your notebook to be as it was when you received it you can press CTRL F11 at boot but be warned, all of your data/picture/music files would be gone. Some people suggest using the XP disk and doing a repair install.