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Later, Dell began using DRMK, their own variation of DOS. The earliest versions of the DSR partition booted to MS-DOS 7.1 (the version of DOS from Windows 98). The later type boots a WinPE 32-bit operating system.Īll DSR versions use the FAT32 file system, so the operating system booted has to be FAT32-aware. Early types of the DSR partition boot to DOS, a 16-bit operating system. There are two basic types of the DSR partition, differing in the operating system to which they boot. PTEDIT32.ZIP is the XP version Runs in Windows XP. PTEDIT.ZIP is the DOSversion Runs in WIN98SE DOS. PowerQuest Partition Table Editor (ptedit.exe) My utility to save and restore your MBR sector is bundled with my Dsrfix, which you can download from ![]() I've chosen to illustrate with these particular tools because they are free and available to anyone. These instructions make use of the following utilities, though you may use any suitable alternatives if you prefer. If you modified/formatted/deleted the partitions then that method is GONE FOREVER. If you remove your drives and carefully lable them you can make a drive with win9x msdos and run dsrfix on it then putīack the diag and recovery partition data and then re run dsrfix and then ctrl f11 recover. If you did not repartition and reformat your drives and they are still working then all of that information can be recovered onto another media ![]() The f8 dELL dATA SAFE VERSION cannot be recovered, cloned, copied. Only the CTRL F11 Symantec version can be copied. PTEDIT from DOS or from Windows XP will allow you to UNHIDE the partitions that have the Diag and the Recovery partition. Mirroring does not matter because the BIOS sees the Mirror as 1 Single drive. The C: drive is the Diag partition, the D: drive is the OS, the E: drive is the Recovery partition. (THIS MEANS THE IMAGE IS ON TYPE 07 NTFS Partition) Hidden as type DB The image in a WinPE-style DSR partition is in Ghost 8.3 format. (THIS MEANS THE IMAGE IS ON TYPE 0C FAT32X Partition) Hidden as type DB The image in a DOS-style DSR partition is in Ghost 2003 format. If the image consists of a group of files, the first file is fi.gho, and the rest of the files are named sequentially, starting with fi000001.ghs. ![]() Note the image consists of the entire fileset, and no one file in the set is usable by itself. If needed, the customer can later use this image to return XP to its "as-shipped" state.ĭue to filesystem considerations, very large images may be split into a group of files The entire partition is "hidden" to make it difficult for the customer to accidentally erase it. The image file is named fi.gho and stored in the DSR partition. The Type DB Partition is changed to 0C (FAT32) usually 8 to 12 Gigs At the End of the Drive.Ĭan also be type 07 NTFS if the CTRL F11 partition is using Norton 10.X The type DE Partition is changed to 06 (FAT16) usually 100 meg or less DIAG DOS partition.
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