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20-Apr-2006, 08:29 AM #1
Do You Have A Dell?
If you do, and you’ve tried to do a system restore via; Ctrl + F11 and had nothing happed, the chances are that you have at one time or another did a "fixmbr" or "fdisk /mbr". This will remove the DSR “Dell System Restore” from the MBR. I post this because I ran into this very issue. I found the fix and it worked great. Read the whole article prior to this procedure.

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20-Apr-2006, 09:39 AM #2
Been there, done that, worked like a champ!
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20-Apr-2006, 11:42 AM #3
I did try that, and it doesn't start/work! I am willing to do whatever is needed, reformat, whatever! Just fix it!!!
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20-Apr-2006, 01:15 PM #4
Hi again
What lance 1 wants you to do is click DSRFIX on his post
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20-Apr-2006, 02:14 PM #5
I do not have a floppy drive! How do I start in a DOS?
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20-Apr-2006, 03:51 PM #6
You can make a bootable CD with MS-DOS and this utility on it.
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20-Apr-2006, 04:09 PM #7
How do I make a bootable CD? I don't have floppy drive!
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20-Apr-2006, 06:34 PM #8
Download an image from www.allbootdisks.com and use it to create a bootable CD. Of course, you can also create this CD on a different machine with a floppy, which will probably make it easier.
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