Axel
02-20-2001, 01:37 PM
Buyer - Beware - , no - allow me to rephrase - the above doesn't quite fully encompass my true feelings in this matter - Buyer Run Away Screaming and totally avoid attempting to recover a Dell Latitude laptop from the DELL recovery CD -
Can you say "USER HOSTILE"! - I can
Good Grief!!! - I've been at the PC game for about 17 years now - I've built several myself - I've rebuilt and repaired hundreds - and yet I've NEVER come across a recovery CD that was almost as impossible to use as that which came with my bosses DELL laptop - He forgot the admin password on an NT 4.0 workstation laptop and so I was going to take out the recovery CD - reimage the drive and rebuild the software load on it....
WOW!!! -
finally - I'm doing a low level format on the system and starting over with nothing from a Techw0rm boot-floppy - and I'll try to reload the box from there -
this is new out of the box and did run before - It's been locked in a file drawer for a few weeks because the boss didn't have time to move over his files - so this ain't hardware damage -
Anyone else have such a problem with a DELL recovery before?
I personally have come to prefer HP recoveries - while the system might not get to you with a good image on the hard drive - you can be sure the recovery CD is good unless scratched and is so easy to use anyone with even the most basic knowledge of PC's and the English written language can figure them out......
Can you say "USER HOSTILE"! - I can
Good Grief!!! - I've been at the PC game for about 17 years now - I've built several myself - I've rebuilt and repaired hundreds - and yet I've NEVER come across a recovery CD that was almost as impossible to use as that which came with my bosses DELL laptop - He forgot the admin password on an NT 4.0 workstation laptop and so I was going to take out the recovery CD - reimage the drive and rebuild the software load on it....
WOW!!! -
finally - I'm doing a low level format on the system and starting over with nothing from a Techw0rm boot-floppy - and I'll try to reload the box from there -
this is new out of the box and did run before - It's been locked in a file drawer for a few weeks because the boss didn't have time to move over his files - so this ain't hardware damage -
Anyone else have such a problem with a DELL recovery before?
I personally have come to prefer HP recoveries - while the system might not get to you with a good image on the hard drive - you can be sure the recovery CD is good unless scratched and is so easy to use anyone with even the most basic knowledge of PC's and the English written language can figure them out......