Reinstall dell diagnostics partition

Press "F8" to accept the end user license agreement. To repair the current version of Windows without overwriting user data, press "R. This process can take about half an hour to complete. Follow the instructions on the screen for entering your region, user name, password, date, time and Internet connection type. James T Wood is a teacher, blogger and author. Since he has published two books and numerous articles, both online and in print.

His work experience has spanned the computer world, from sales and support to training and repair. Turn your PC on and press F12 to enter the boot menu 3. Just do a ctrl-alt-del and rerun steps again This time you should be able to see the new Diag files being copied into the new Diag Partition. Type Restart. Test it by pressing F12 at menu and select Dell Diagnostics. This does not work for me at least on a Latitude E It copied the files but it would error out at the end.

Here is what I had to do to fix the problem. Open UltraISO 2. Open the ISO file 7. BAT file and choose extract to 9. Choose you desktop or something easy Edit the MKUP. BAT file you just extracted BAT file in it Save the ISO file Follow the steps in 3. This is one big pain in the ass to do but at least all my Ghost images of Dell pcs now have a Diag util partition and I no longer have to go searching through cds.

Hope this info is useful. This defines the variable and allows the batch file to run cleanly. Easier than extracting and reburning, but if you ever need the dvd, you would have it again I was just wondering what the specs were for the partition. I can create the partition but would like to know what size it should be as a bare minimum. I checked with Dell support and it appears that Dell no longer offers this software download. So for those of us who switch to a new hard drive whether it be for larger drive space or because of a failed hard drive, there is no easy software download from Dell that will allow you to CREATE the Diagnostic Utility Partition.

I was disappointed that Dell decided to not supply that to its customers anymore. I hope they read this and reconsider adding it to the support downloads on their website. For hard drive upgrades original Dell hard drive functional and for the technically advanced, here is a link that mentions you can clone the hidden partition to another drive.

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