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Dell Inspiron 1545 not booting properly

Walker34 · 2011-09-17 14:19:54

Hi, my Inspiron 1545 insists on running a disk check at boot-up and reports that boot manager failed to find os loader. I checked the hd in Ubuntu partition manager and the recovery partition and main partition are present and populate with usual files. How do I start dell recovery from the recovery partition or the CD.…

17-09-2011 2:19pm

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Walker34

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Hi,
my Inspiron 1545 insists on running a disk check at boot-up and reports that boot manager failed to find os loader. I checked the hd in Ubuntu partition manager and the recovery partition and main partition are present and populate with usual files.

How do I start dell recovery from the recovery partition or the CD. When I boot to the CD it offers loads of options but none do what hey say on the can.....restore the os. Is there a key combination at start-up to initializes recovery?

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