If the recovery system has been tampered with and you elected not to create restore media the cheap fix is to order said media.
Dell has a custom recovery system and after looking at your issue a few too many times, we know how to fix it now.
Bob
Hi,
I desperately need HELP! I have formated my laptop Dell Inspiron N5110 and reinstall a copy of windows 7 after noticing several viruses running on my pc. But I didn't delete or format the Recovery Partition. The recovery partition is intact. I now want to recover my pc to the factory settings of the original windows but I do not know if it is possible and how. I didn't know that I could just use the Dell Datasafe from the beginning before formatting my pc (how stupid I am). I have given a letter to the Recovery partition (F
and I know can see all the files included inside it. After searching for a while, some people suggesting to execute the following cmd under "Tools" dir (dir which I cannot find):
imagex /apply f:\dell\image\factory.wim 1 c:\
Can anyone please help me??? I really need help with this! Can anyone give me guidlelines what to do???
Thanks,
Chris.

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