Access Dell Recovery Partition

[Andre neil]

I have Old Dell PC.I have contacted the dell support but they not showing the way to access the recovery partition as they say software tech support costs money. Is there anything so that I can access it?

Thanks for any suggestions.

[Neel23]

See it: Dell manual

''''To use PC Restore:

1 Turn on the computer.
During the boot process, a blue bar with www.dell.com appears at the top of the screen.

2 Immediately upon seeing the blue bar, press <Ctrl><F11>.

If you do not press <Ctrl><F11> in time, let the computer finish restarting, and then restart the computer again.'''' page 57

Hope this helps

[Abedin]

According to Dell: "If you purchased the Dell DataSafe option when you ordered your computer, you can use it to roll back the system to a healthy state.

Use the Norton Ghost 10 user interface to restore data that has been backed up to the DataSafe partition.
For information on how to utilize Ghost 10 for your backup and restore needs, refer to Symantec's support for:

Norton Ghost 10

If you need to recover from a complete hard drive failure and have DataSafe, then you only have to replace the failing drive. The RAID BIOS will detect the new drive and then automatically rebuild the new drive."

[Melville]

When you first power the system on during the post (dell logo is displayed) Ctrl+F11 at the Dell logo. untill you see a boot menu appear. You should have an option for utility partition or diagnostics partition in the list.