Vista - Recovey of Dell Inspiron 1525

Dell Inspiron 1525 laptop with recovery partition D from factory for its recovery to factory conditions.Inorder to safegaurd the recovery partition having factory image and data, i managed to creat the exact copy of drive on the external hard drive by Keriver image backup and restore.In case of any emergency, how can i restore my laptop from the recovery availiable in external hard drive. By default system restores to factory settings after pressing F8 at booting.The resource CD of dell is also availiable to me

nisar6788 wrote:
You can't do it that way. The Dell recovery process expects to find the
recovery image on the D: partition on the hard drive.

What you should do is image your *system*, not the recovery partition, and
store the image on the external hard drive. I'm not familiar with Keriver
Image Backup but assume it is similar to the Acronis True Image I use to do
this.

Malke
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Keriver is as of Acronics True image. image of system created and kept in external hard drive. However image of recovery D on external hard drive will be also feasible to restore the same image in Drive D incase of any damage to recovery partition D.Now i am in fix, does the image restored in D will work as of Recovery D.Also help me wheather the function key F8 will work as it functions to factory image D.

nisar6788 wrote:
I have no idea if the recovery image you backed up will work if you put it
back on Drive D. Try it and find out or call Dell tech support and ask them.

Malke
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MS-MVP
Elephant Boy Computers - Don't Panic!
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Isnt that the laptop with the funky keyboard and u have to hold the function key to make work like F8???