Dell® Inspiron 14 recovery partition

Common recovery partitions issues with Dell Inspiron 14

Dell Inspiron 14 is a popular laptop series from Dell. Dell Inspiron 14 laptop comes with many system recovery options. Recovery partition is one of the system recovery options provided in Dell Inspiron 14. These laptops come with 360 to 500 GB of hard disk. The recover partition comes on the hard disk as a separate partition which helps in system recovery as described here later.

Here we will discuss in detail about what is the recovery partition in Dell Inspiron 14 and how it works in detail:

• What is a recovery partition in Dell Inspiron 14
• The role and benefit of recovery partition works in Dell Inspiron 14
• How to recover partitions that have become corrupted in Dell Inspiron 14

What is a recovery partition in Dell Inspiron 14

Recovery partition is an independent partition on hard disk. The recovery partition contains original system settings, drivers etc. which are present when you have purchased the laptop. Thus, these settings are useful to restore your system to original state of the time when it was manufactured and prepared for first use so the recovery partition can be used to boot the laptop from the partition, when your system becomes unstable or is not able to recover from any serious error. You can also create the recovery partition in your Dell Inspiron 14 yourself and store the system state which you want to use to recover the system in future if you face any issues.

The role and benefit of recovery partition works in Dell Inspiron 14

The recovery partition is used to boot the laptop from that partition so that you will be able to boot the laptop successfully to overcome from serious system error. When you laptop encounters a serious error, you need to boot the laptop from recovery partition. All Dell laptops contain a recovery console which can be launched by pressing F11 key after restarting the laptop. Now you may choose to boot your laptop from the recovery partition in the Boot menu. The recovery partition contains all the necessary system files and drives so that you will be able to boot your laptop successfully from the recovery partition. This way recovery partition works to give user a choice to recover all the data by booting it from separate recovery partition instead of the regular hard drive where the operating system was installed earlier.

You can recover your partition by opening the recovery console by pressing F8 and starting partition recovery. It may give relief you from boot sector serious corruption. There is also another way, first reboot your computer and when dell splash screen comes, press Ctrl+ F11. Dell pc restores Symantec window will appear. Just click restore or press Tab and Enter. This will restore your laptop and solve the problem. Again, you may use a third party partition recovery software like active partition recovery and so on, which are available in the market and recover using them automatically and very easily just following the instructions.

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