Booting a recovery partition.
Posted: Sun Dec 12, 2010 5:28 pm
Hi there
is it possible to boot a recovery partition from ubcd? It is the only partition on the hard drive (the C drive was wiped), there is no MBR and of course I get the missing MBR error when trying to start the PC from that hard drive.
I am trying to run the recovery partition so Vista can be installed again!
This is a Dell Inspiron 1555 laptop, basically a friend had a virus on it and decided to delete the C drive! I tried to run the repair centre and run the recovery but it wasn't working, so what I have done is wipe the disk with UBCD all except the recovery partition and now I want to install Vista again! I just can't boot the recovery or is it not designed to?! Its set as the active drive etc etc.
The only other option I can think to do (apart from request a back up DVD from Dell (not sure they do this in the UK?), or buy a new copy of Vista) is use my Acer laptop recovery DVDs and install Vista back on the Dell laptop and then go through the recovery console and launch the recovery partition and go from there! Would that work?!
Thanks for the help!
Ben
is it possible to boot a recovery partition from ubcd? It is the only partition on the hard drive (the C drive was wiped), there is no MBR and of course I get the missing MBR error when trying to start the PC from that hard drive.
I am trying to run the recovery partition so Vista can be installed again!
This is a Dell Inspiron 1555 laptop, basically a friend had a virus on it and decided to delete the C drive! I tried to run the repair centre and run the recovery but it wasn't working, so what I have done is wipe the disk with UBCD all except the recovery partition and now I want to install Vista again! I just can't boot the recovery or is it not designed to?! Its set as the active drive etc etc.
The only other option I can think to do (apart from request a back up DVD from Dell (not sure they do this in the UK?), or buy a new copy of Vista) is use my Acer laptop recovery DVDs and install Vista back on the Dell laptop and then go through the recovery console and launch the recovery partition and go from there! Would that work?!
Thanks for the help!
Ben