Dell £339 Laptop 15.4" widescreen, wireless, DVDRW (NOW GONE - that's all folks!)

Northtim

Yeah - no sign of the restore disk/image.

However there must be a hidden partition as the hdd size is only showing as approx 36gb. Think the files are probably in there?

Thanks for pointing out what the sonic files are - didn't realise they were burning software! Will do as you and install nero instead.

Kilty_2

Yeah there is no CD burning option on my 1300, although the bloody Sonic Activation thing does keep asking for a disk on startup (End Tasking it for now makes it go away, until i can be bothered turning off the two programs responsible for it.

Kilty_2

Northtim wrote:

Yeah - no sign of the restore disk/image.

However there must be a hidden partition as the hdd size is only showing as approx 36gb. Think the files are probably in there?

Thanks for pointing out what the sonic files are - didn't realise they were burning software! Will do as you and install nero instead.

I believe the 4GB is used for the Symantec Restore thing, that you can get at startup by pressing ctrl and F11, for reverting to factory install.

Northtim

Go the the support site - troubleshooting for a fix for that message.

Bubba_Shaboo

Mine's not working :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek:






















Only because it's still in it's box on the dining room table


Been up at Big Momma Shaboo's trying to set her's up to connect to her Wanadoo Livebox but it's having none of it.

Don't suppose anyone's done it already and has any tips?

Been a long hard week at work so mine's staying in the box until tomorrow at least.
Bubba©

talkshop

All the restore files should be in the Dell directory on C: drive.

Just do a windows search for Dell from the start menu.

Browntoa

it must have a restore partition, I used it today

I think Dell got fed up with us burning our own copy !!

Kilty_2

talkshop wrote:

All the restore files should be in the Dell directory on C: drive.

Just do a windows search for Dell from the start menu.

All I found in there was a nice utility that offered to delete my restore partition :eek:

Although I think hidden/system files are turned off, shouldve really turned em on but forgot.

Browntoa

just turned on hidden files/folders but still no sign

Lorian

Searcher wrote:

You can burn the restore disk directly from the image which you can find at C:\dell\MEDIAEXE\Media.iso
I'm not sure if the sonic software will burn images or not as I uninstalled it pretty much straight away and installed Nero, but if you do a Google search there are plenty of free utilities that will let you burn/ extract an iso image
HTH

I dont have the PC yet but the order confirmation says it has "roxio Mydvd basic" included which is cd/dvd burning software. This is on a machine with the DVD writer option.

Also, I paid the extra £5 option to get the genuine windows XP CD included.