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Removing Recovery Partitions from Dell Laptop
I copied boot and bootmgr from the Dell Recovery Partition to Windows 7
and set Windows 7 partition active. Machine booted ok, but when I deleted the Recovery Partition and Dell Utility machine would not boot. Laptop is Dell Studio 1555. I know people do this, what am I missing. |
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Removing Recovery Partitions from Dell Laptop
Dave Cohen wrote:
I copied boot and bootmgr from the Dell Recovery Partition to Windows 7 and set Windows 7 partition active. Machine booted ok, but when I deleted the Recovery Partition and Dell Utility machine would not boot. Laptop is Dell Studio 1555. I know people do this, what am I missing. Which partition is marked as System? Ed |
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"Dave Cohen" wrote in message ... I copied boot and bootmgr from the Dell Recovery Partition to Windows 7 and set Windows 7 partition active. Machine booted ok, but when I deleted the Recovery Partition and Dell Utility machine would not boot. Laptop is Dell Studio 1555. I know people do this, what am I missing. The way I did it on my HP was to make an image of the C:\ drive with ATI Home, format the whole hard drive, make the whole drive one partition, then restore the image. Rebooted, and I was right where I was before the image, except I had one larger partition instead of two. -- SC Tom |
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SC Tom wrote:
"Dave Cohen" wrote in message ... I copied boot and bootmgr from the Dell Recovery Partition to Windows 7 and set Windows 7 partition active. Machine booted ok, but when I deleted the Recovery Partition and Dell Utility machine would not boot. Laptop is Dell Studio 1555. I know people do this, what am I missing. The way I did it on my HP was to make an image of the C:\ drive with ATI Home, format the whole hard drive, make the whole drive one partition, then restore the image. Rebooted, and I was right where I was before the image, except I had one larger partition instead of two. And if that hadn't worked, then you could have booted from a Repair disk and let it do its stuff. Which would probably do the job for the OP in the situation he's got into. Ed |
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"Ed Cryer" wrote in message ... SC Tom wrote: "Dave Cohen" wrote in message ... I copied boot and bootmgr from the Dell Recovery Partition to Windows 7 and set Windows 7 partition active. Machine booted ok, but when I deleted the Recovery Partition and Dell Utility machine would not boot. Laptop is Dell Studio 1555. I know people do this, what am I missing. The way I did it on my HP was to make an image of the C:\ drive with ATI Home, format the whole hard drive, make the whole drive one partition, then restore the image. Rebooted, and I was right where I was before the image, except I had one larger partition instead of two. And if that hadn't worked, then you could have booted from a Repair disk and let it do its stuff. Which would probably do the job for the OP in the situation he's got into. +1 -- SC Tom |
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On Sat, 14 Jul 2012 18:38:32 +0100, Ed Cryer wrote:
SC Tom wrote: "Dave Cohen" wrote in message ... I copied boot and bootmgr from the Dell Recovery Partition to Windows 7 and set Windows 7 partition active. Machine booted ok, but when I deleted the Recovery Partition and Dell Utility machine would not boot. Laptop is Dell Studio 1555. I know people do this, what am I missing. The way I did it on my HP was to make an image of the C:\ drive with ATI Home, format the whole hard drive, make the whole drive one partition, then restore the image. Rebooted, and I was right where I was before the image, except I had one larger partition instead of two. And if that hadn't worked, then you could have booted from a Repair disk and let it do its stuff. Which would probably do the job for the OP in the situation he's got into. Ed I did have to recover the system when it wouldn't boot, but the windows restore cd recovers both the windows system and the two Dell partitions. When you backup, the Recovery and Windows partitions are marked for backup and greyed out, so you have to save both. To answer an earlier question, I changed active partition from the Recovery to Windows. A more serious problem is although Windows 7 and my Data partitions load fine, I cannot install a side by side linux. Linux file system shows everything, but gparted only shows an empty drive and claims the partition table is invalid. My DellUtility is listed as DEh, I can't remember if that is what it was originally, I have a feeling it was 0, but I'm not sure. |
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On Sat, 14 Jul 2012 15:59:37 +0000 (UTC), Dave Cohen wrote:
I copied boot and bootmgr from the Dell Recovery Partition to Windows 7 and set Windows 7 partition active. Machine booted ok, but when I deleted the Recovery Partition and Dell Utility machine would not boot. Laptop is Dell Studio 1555. I know people do this, what am I missing. You're missing a boot partition. I had this same problem when I restored from backup to a replacement hard drive. If you have a Windows 7 CD (DVD?), or can borrow one, boot from it on your computer and select the option to repair Windows. Your existing activation will stay in effect -- at least mine did. -- Stan Brown, Oak Road Systems, Tompkins County, New York, USA http://OakRoadSystems.com Shikata ga nai... |
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In Win7 unless other optional methods are used to install Windows the boot
and bootmgr are normally stored on the System partition whereas the separate boot partition contains the Windows operating system files. In the case of the op's Dell system deleting the Recovery partition etc. would appear to have wiped the System partition. Using a Win7 DVD to repair, as noted, should resolve the op's Dell problem. Preferably the same version of Win7 DVD as that installed should be used. - i.e. if Win7 SP1 is installed, use a Win7 SP1 DVD -- ....winston msft mvp mail "Stan Brown" wrote in message ... On Sat, 14 Jul 2012 15:59:37 +0000 (UTC), Dave Cohen wrote: I copied boot and bootmgr from the Dell Recovery Partition to Windows 7 and set Windows 7 partition active. Machine booted ok, but when I deleted the Recovery Partition and Dell Utility machine would not boot. Laptop is Dell Studio 1555. I know people do this, what am I missing. You're missing a boot partition. I had this same problem when I restored from backup to a replacement hard drive. If you have a Windows 7 CD (DVD?), or can borrow one, boot from it on your computer and select the option to repair Windows. Your existing activation will stay in effect -- at least mine did. -- Stan Brown, Oak Road Systems, Tompkins County, New York, USA http://OakRoadSystems.com Shikata ga nai... |
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Dave Cohen wrote:
On Sat, 14 Jul 2012 18:38:32 +0100, Ed Cryer wrote: SC Tom wrote: "Dave wrote in message ... I copied boot and bootmgr from the Dell Recovery Partition to Windows 7 and set Windows 7 partition active. Machine booted ok, but when I deleted the Recovery Partition and Dell Utility machine would not boot. Laptop is Dell Studio 1555. I know people do this, what am I missing. The way I did it on my HP was to make an image of the C:\ drive with ATI Home, format the whole hard drive, make the whole drive one partition, then restore the image. Rebooted, and I was right where I was before the image, except I had one larger partition instead of two. And if that hadn't worked, then you could have booted from a Repair disk and let it do its stuff. Which would probably do the job for the OP in the situation he's got into. Ed I did have to recover the system when it wouldn't boot, but the windows restore cd recovers both the windows system and the two Dell partitions. When you backup, the Recovery and Windows partitions are marked for backup and greyed out, so you have to save both. To answer an earlier question, I changed active partition from the Recovery to Windows. A more serious problem is although Windows 7 and my Data partitions load fine, I cannot install a side by side linux. Linux file system shows everything, but gparted only shows an empty drive and claims the partition table is invalid. My DellUtility is listed as DEh, I can't remember if that is what it was originally, I have a feeling it was 0, but I'm not sure. I'm not quite sure just where you're at with this now. We could easily be talking at cross purposes. Recovery and Repair are different things, and that's where the confusion is. From your original post position (ie after deleting the Recovery Partition) you could have made the system bootable with either a Repair Disk (created from the Backup and Restore page of Win7) or the repair option of a Win7 set-up disk. You seem, however, to have got it to boot ok. But you mention a problem with Linux. Firstly; Work merely with Win7, run checkdisk on all the partitions, run some of your regular programs and see if everything is ok. Secondly; Tackle this Linux problem. And if you want help there you'll have to give us more details. Is it a clean install or a restore? Just what do you mean by "side by side linux"? Ed |
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On Sat, 14 Jul 2012 23:32:39 -0400, Stan Brown
wrote: On Sat, 14 Jul 2012 15:59:37 +0000 (UTC), Dave Cohen wrote: I copied boot and bootmgr from the Dell Recovery Partition to Windows 7 and set Windows 7 partition active. Machine booted ok, but when I deleted the Recovery Partition and Dell Utility machine would not boot. Laptop is Dell Studio 1555. I know people do this, what am I missing. You're missing a boot partition. I had this same problem when I restored from backup to a replacement hard drive. I think you mean he's missing the *System* partition. The definitions of "Boot Partition" and "System Partition" are the opposite of what most of us might expect them to be. See http://support.microsoft.com/kb/314470/EN-US/ |
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On Sun, 15 Jul 2012 07:22:41 -0700, Ken Blake wrote:
On Sat, 14 Jul 2012 23:32:39 -0400, Stan Brown wrote: On Sat, 14 Jul 2012 15:59:37 +0000 (UTC), Dave Cohen wrote: I copied boot and bootmgr from the Dell Recovery Partition to Windows 7 and set Windows 7 partition active. Machine booted ok, but when I deleted the Recovery Partition and Dell Utility machine would not boot. Laptop is Dell Studio 1555. I know people do this, what am I missing. You're missing a boot partition. I had this same problem when I restored from backup to a replacement hard drive. I think you mean he's missing the *System* partition. The definitions of "Boot Partition" and "System Partition" are the opposite of what most of us might expect them to be. See http://support.microsoft.com/kb/314470/EN-US/ I expect you're right; thanks for the correction. I do stand by my advice to use a Windows install disk to do a repair. -- Stan Brown, Oak Road Systems, Tompkins County, New York, USA http://OakRoadSystems.com Shikata ga nai... |
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On Sun, 15 Jul 2012 13:26:03 -0400, Stan Brown
wrote: On Sun, 15 Jul 2012 07:22:41 -0700, Ken Blake wrote: On Sat, 14 Jul 2012 23:32:39 -0400, Stan Brown wrote: On Sat, 14 Jul 2012 15:59:37 +0000 (UTC), Dave Cohen wrote: I copied boot and bootmgr from the Dell Recovery Partition to Windows 7 and set Windows 7 partition active. Machine booted ok, but when I deleted the Recovery Partition and Dell Utility machine would not boot. Laptop is Dell Studio 1555. I know people do this, what am I missing. You're missing a boot partition. I had this same problem when I restored from backup to a replacement hard drive. I think you mean he's missing the *System* partition. The definitions of "Boot Partition" and "System Partition" are the opposite of what most of us might expect them to be. See http://support.microsoft.com/kb/314470/EN-US/ I expect you're right; thanks for the correction. You're welcome. I do stand by my advice to use a Windows install disk to do a repair. Not a problem. |
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