PACKARD BELL

geordie1 · Post by **geordie1** » Mon Aug 17, 2009 9:44 pm

HELLO FORUM,

I RECENTLY TRIED FORMATING ONE OF MY HARD DRIVES BUT THE PROBLEM IS I DELETED THE PACKARD BELL RECOVERY PARTION.

I HAVE 11 DISCS I TAKE IT THERE BACK UP DISCS BUT WHEN IM TRYING TO PUT THE PC BACK TO THE FACTORY SETTING IT WONT ALLOW ME ITS SAYIN THE HARD DISCS ARE NOT BIG ENOUGH IS IT BECAUSE I FORMATTED ONE OF THE HARD DRIVES.

ALL ANSWERS WELCOME

thescruff · Post by **thescruff** » Mon Aug 17, 2009 9:48 pm

Don't know the answer but I'm sure one of the guys will have a few ideas.

In the meantime find the caps lock and press it once.

lamntile · Post by **lamntile** » Mon Aug 17, 2009 9:51 pm

What is the exact model of your pc ? Although you see a number of hard drives it will probably only be 1 physical drive that is split in to partitions, you may have inadvertantly shrunk the main partition.

geordie1 · Post by **geordie1** » Mon Aug 17, 2009 9:57 pm

There is 2 drives one primary and one system the packard bell system recovery was on the primary drive it said packard bell recovery management oem (reserved) but i formatted that because i made 11 discs up

lamntile · Post by **lamntile** » Mon Aug 17, 2009 10:10 pm

How did you format ... from within windows or a 3rd party program in dos ? and the discs you did your backup on are they cds or dvds and what did you use to do the backup

dave.m · Post by **dave.m** » Mon Aug 17, 2009 11:57 pm

Have you got Packard Bell's "Smart Restore" program on your computer? Have a look at Start > All Programs > Packard Bell Support > SmartRestore.

If so, running this software may give you two options - one of them is a complete restore back to the way the computer was first delivered to you. The other is a partial restore, that leaves any additional software, etc. intact.
This will only work if you still have the recovery data intact on your HD.

If not, you can call the The Tech Guys on 0870 9013000.
They may talk you through it or you might be able to buy a recovery CD from PB.

dave

scot-canuck · Post by **scot-canuck** » Sat Aug 22, 2009 12:20 am

11 discs...floppies?

what version of windows are you running?

dave.m · Post by **dave.m** » Sat Aug 22, 2009 2:16 pm

geordie1 wrote:There is 2 drives one primary and one system the packard bell system recovery was on the primary drive it said packard bell recovery management oem (reserved) but i formatted that because i made 11 discs up

I know it's not quite a week since you last posted but please try to reply to our suggestions. It helps us know what is happening.

What did you mean by " i formatted that because i made 11 discs up"?

How, where, and what did you actually do because I, for one, am lost as to your actions.

dave