Lost Dell factory recovery partition

Hi guys I think I may have got the problem sorted.
I said I was trying to revert back to windows 7 after trying windows 8 for a few months I was using a system image of windows 7 made with Acronis true image, all was ok until the last few seconds of the restore it then failed taking out some of the partitions.

And try as I might true image just would not restore all the partitions, I then saw in true image I could select a new disk and mark it all as unallocated I think that removed all the remaining partitions, it then restored a full image including the recovery partition.

The one partition that was missing was the first one, As you can see with the new screenshots I have posted

I now have back the dell factory recovery option

Hi mjf the D drive is my CD rom

Does it look right to you guys now

Regards

I don't use Acronis, but it seems to have a sense of humour:

I then saw in true image I could select a new di*k

Apart from the typo it looks ok to me. I recall Dell boot through their Recovery partition for some reason.

bigmck said:

SIW2 -- His Disk Management in message #1, it doesn't seem to have a "System" partition. I don't see how it boots without that. Any ideas?

His 700MB partition is the 'system partition' because it is the active partition. It does not really matter what it is called. He could have a look at this with this:

https://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials...artitions.html

Update: Michael is right. Dell makes the recovery partition active. I think the main reason is to have no more than 3 primary partitions (although C could be a logical partition if they wanted).

sam49 said:

Sorry about the typo guys I hope I have not offended anyone. I have edited it out now.

It didn't offend me and I've seen even funnier typos.

I did not even notice it - but I am half blind, LOL.

In answer to one of your first questions, I recently got a laptop and was fooling around with the partitions. I also deleted my Recovery Partition. I don't consider it any great loss as I have a Macrium copy to restore my HD if ever needed. If you do that you don't the the Recovery Partition.