Modifying Windows Vista/7 Startup Repair Area

[Asrial]

How do you modify the Startup Repair area for Windows Vista/7?

Specifically...

I wiped the C drive and installed Vista fresh and want to re-add the ability to access the Dell Recovery program through Startup Repair.

Further...

How do you add the Startup Repair area period? It's prompting to use the Windows install DVD.

[coffee]

I assume you wiped the whole hard drive when you said you wiped out the C drive. Most companies put their stuff on a partition seperate from windows. If you wiped this out then its gone. Perhaps find a drive with the manufactuer install on it and copy the partition over to where the old one was??

[Xander]

It was likely a customized/branded version of those files that you've wiped.

[Asrial]

Originally Posted by Xander

It was likely a customized/branded version of those files that you've wiped.

Yes.

Any idea where the files are located?

[Rosco]

if there is no D: drive anymore you are out of luck.

restoredisks.com is a good option for recovery media.

[Asrial]

Let me clarify...

The recovery partition is still there.

This is a Dell. Dell has it setup (and others are following suit) that when you do F8 and go to REPAIR MY COMPUTER one of the options will be to initiate the Dell recovery program.

I wiped drive C clean to install just the operating system. This nukes that option. Further, it nukes the entire REPAIR MY COMPUTER area. I have to boot to it from a recovery CD, at which point I have to go to the command prompt and manually run the recovery program on the recovery partition.

Does anyone know how to modify the REPAIR MY COMPUTER area so that I can...

1) Add/Remove commands (specifically I want to add the Dell option back).

2) Return it to being built-in and not requiring the recovery CD.

[numnutz]

Sorry long day I'm not following you 100%. The recovery partition is still there? So if you boot to the Dell manufacture restore partition and put back the original image will the repair my computer option come back? Not sure what you were trying to accomplish by wiping the c drive and installing just the OS?