Usually in control panel.
Dafydd.
will not reconize recovery discs help.
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will not reconize recovery discs help.
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Can you tell what exactly you do and what exactly happens? That would be much more informative that saying what it does NOT do (recognise the discs).
There's no ctrl-F11 recovery for this model?
Kees
starts to boot up then goes to missing operating system. there is no safe mode. when i put in recovery disc i get that there is no room on the hard drive. when i put in the windows 7 disc i can try to repair. i get to the part where i can look at the hard drive and I see that there is plenty of room . I tried to copy an ISO to a disc but I cannot get it to load. computer is booting fine and set up show no errors.I apperciate your help
The ISO is a file. You could create a bootable DVD from it but many download some ISO from the web then discover all the troubles with that. I'm going to skip how to use an ISO here and wait for you to reveal where it came from since if not from Dell, you may be jumping into a vat of burning oil.
What you want is the recovery media.
If you do have such as there is no space on the HDD it's possible someone was trying out Linux. If so you go get GPARTED to remove all the partitions from the HDD (yup, we are going to start fresh) and then the recovery will partition as need be.
Bob
I have the dell recovery disc but the system says not enough hard drive space ive tried both recovery and repair.
You're rather unclear.
- "when I put in the recovery disc i get that there is no room on the hard drive". Recovery discs are meant to boot from and then a lot happens before they give this unlikely message.
- "i get to the part ... and see there is plenty of room". And after that?
- "an ISO". What ISO and how did you copy it to a disc?
So I agree with James, more or less. Erase everything on the disk (using a GPARTED boot disk) and then use the recovery discs.
Kees
Im thinking germlins.. no idea just booted up and it said missing operatin system. there is no safe mode in the dell i have tried all the easy things looking for the one solution that will get this baby working again.
There are some missing details here. There should be a recovery partition on the system so if you bring up the prompt for where you'd enter safe mode, there should be an option for system recovery. I forget the exact verbiage, but it should be along those lines.
Another option is to use the one-time boot menu, which is F12 at boot for Dell. There should be a recovery option there as well. This will reload all the software to factory condition. This is all pre-POST so when you first turn on the system.
If you're not getting any of those, I'd suspect the HDD has failed and if it's under warranty, call up Dell and get them to replace the HDD. Otherwise start checking online and local electronics stores for deals on laptop HDDs. Then you'll need to contact Dell to get copies of the restore media for your system. Something you should have created when prompted to do so the first couple of times you booted the system for just this sort of occasion. Live and learn and don't let it happen again.
no ctnl f11 did nothing. recovery disc tells me there is no room in harddrive. but when i put in the indows 7 repair dsc that i have i can see that there is room on the drive.
you have the proper recover disc for this computer? Or did you get these recovery disc off EBay perhaps? If so, then you might have recovery disc for a 32 bit system using MBR, but need them for a 64 bit system using GPT. The "protective MBR" that is on the GPT disc will do that exact thing, say there's no more room.