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The user initially asked how to restore the Dell Data Restore option in the F8 boot menu after reinstalling Windows 7 on their Dell Inspiron N5110, which had the recovery partition still available. A respondent guided them to activate the recovery partition via Disk Management, but the user encountered an issue where the "mark partition as active" option was not available, leading to further clarification that the recovery partition should be marked active instead. Overall, the thread discusses troubleshooting the recovery partition activation to restore factory recovery options.
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Waqar Bukhari

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Friends, I have dell inspiron n5110. It had geniune windows 7 home premium. There was dell data restore option in F8 boot menu option to restore my windows. a week ago i installed new windows 7. i didnt deleted recovery partition on my computer but there in no more option of dell data restore in f8 boot menu. Kindly help me to restore my windows. Plz help..... If there is any way to do it using comand prompt or any other way to restore that option in f8. Plz reply..
 

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patcooke
The recovery partition is still there, it has just been removed from the boot options by your new install. Just go to:

Control panel, select classic view if necessary, administrative tools, computer management, storage, disk management.

Right click on the recovery partition and select"mark partition as active". Reboot and it will run your recovery partition.
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The recovery partition is still there, it has just been removed from the boot options by your new install. Just go to:

Control panel, select classic view if necessary, administrative tools, computer management, storage, disk management.

Right click on the recovery partition and select"mark partition as active". Reboot and it will run your recovery partition.
 
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The "mark drive as active" should currently be "greyed out" on drive C as it should be currently active. I expect your recovery drive should be showing as drive D and that is the one which you should be trying to mark as active - is that what you are doing?
 
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