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Russell W Meredith <> wrote in
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> I bought a used Latitude D 530 laptop to be given to a high school
> student. The owner wanted to remove all of his data and simply
> reinstalled win xp instead of using the Dell Control + F11 restore to
> factory specs function. Consequently all programs, utilities, and
> drivers were lost.
>
> Dell is sending me a restore disc and a utility disc. I wanted to
> know if the partitions on the hdd containing the restore image had
> been overwritten or might be recoverable. If so I could save a lot of
> time.
>
> I found www.goodells.net/dellrestore/files/dsrfix.zip where there is
> an excellent explanation of the Dell restore feature. This is a DOS
> program that requires a computer to boot into DOS. First the DSR
> is analyzed and if repairable fixed.
>
> The D 530 laptop boot sequence is: Diskette, Internal hdd, USB Storage
> device, CD drive. Boot sequence is fixed. Any boot device can be
> disabled.
>
> The D 530 is not on a list of Dell computers that have been
> successfully restored using DSRfix.
>
> Has anyone been able to repair the Dell Factory Specs restore feature
> on a D 530 laptop? If I buy a USB Floppy Drive will the laptop
> recognize it and try to boot from it first? Is it even possible to
> boot the laptop into DOS.
>
> Any suggestions will be welcome
>
Am I to understand you want to install XP onto a windows 98 computer?

If that's the case forget it. You don't have enough ram along with the
virtual impossibility of getting drivers for XP. The restore disk you get
*will* work if you use *only* the original hardware - that's *nothing* is
PCMCIA/firewire/usb that isn't *sold* as part of the computer. The restore
disk will install windows 98 as well unless you can show me that some
other OS came on the computer originally.

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On Tue, 9 Jun 2009 10:33:17 +0000 (UTC), chuckcar <>
wrote:

>Am I to understand you want to install XP onto a windows 98 computer?
>
>If that's the case forget it. You don't have enough ram along with the
>virtual impossibility of getting drivers for XP. The restore disk you get
>*will* work if you use *only* the original hardware - that's *nothing* is
>PCMCIA/firewire/usb that isn't *sold* as part of the computer. The restore
>disk will install windows 98 as well unless you can show me that some
>other OS came on the computer originally.

Stupidity. Plain and simple.
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On Tue, 09 Jun 2009 09:29:34 -0500, The Old Sourdough
<> wrote:

>Still can't read, eh, chuckie?

This is the point where chucktard either seriously backpedals, or
simply leaves the discussion with his tail between his legs.
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