Repair dell restore partition windows 7

Last reply by ayria Solved. Cannot Access Windows 7 Recovery Partition. Greetings, I am attempting to do a system recovery for Dell Inspiron N, and cannot access the Windows 7 recovery partition. Please assist. Thanks in advance! All forum topics Previous Topic Next Topic. Solution 1. Accepted Solutions. Community Accepted Solution. Replies 2. When your Operating System stops working correctly, there are ways to get it working again.

Select whether Windows 7 starts correctly or not on your computer, for information about how to resolve your issue. Dell recommends backing up your files and data to an external hard drive, DVDs, CDs, or other removable storage media regularly. For more information about how to back up and restore your data, refer to Microsoft Knowledge Base article, " Back up and restore your PC. When Windows 7 does not start correctly or not at all, there are three options to restore the Operating System on your computer to fix computer issues such as infections, corruption, crashes or to clear your personal information from the computer.

They are, from left most tab to right most tab, easiest to hardest. A System Restore Point takes your computer back to a time when it was working correctly, without losing your documents or other personal files. Follow these instructions to reinstall the Operating System using the Dell Factory Image Restore partition, to a state that came on your computer, from the factory. For more information about how to back up your data, refer to Microsoft Knowledge Base article, " Back up and restore your PC.

Review the Things to consider and What you will need tabs, before preceding to the How to manually reinstall Windows 7 tab. If you have an Intel Kaby Lake processor, installation of Windows 7 is not supported. Restoring your computer to its original factory settings takes less time than reinstalling Windows 7 manually. When you have not done so, refer to the Using the built-in Dell Factory Image Restore partition section before installing Windows 7 manually. When your notebook does not have an optical drive, refer to the Using the built-in Dell Factory Image Restore partition tab first.

When that does not work, refer to the Dell Knowledge Base article How to create and use the Dell Windows recovery image. We used the Dell Backup and Recovery wizard to create recovery discs in case of hard drive failure to restore the system back to normal, and had a separate file backup. The hard drive failed and Dell replaced for us. We were able to recover the software using the discs but there is a problem with the Windows recovery environment.

Normal Windows boot is fine. I have already had remote user try Startup repair using Windows disc to no avail. Image 4 - Clicking Next on the Backup and Recovery screen 6. The system would be checked to see if the smart repair option can fix the issue, click Next once this is done. Image 5 - Smart repair option 7. You will be prompted to select the backup to be used, click the factory image option or select from one of the backups. Click Next.

Image 6 - Select Backup 8. You will be prompted to backup your files, if needed do so by selecting the option Yes, backup my personal files Make sure to have an external backup hard drive handy. Image 7 - Backup files 9.