Dell E6400 Recovery
The Dell Latitude E6400 is an Intel-Centrino-2-powered laptop released in 2008 as a revamp of Dell's business line. It comes with the Windows Vista Business operating system and a 160GB, 7,200 rpm hard disk drive. If your Dell E6400 is having hard drive difficulties -- it doesn't recognize the hard drive, it's unable to read certain hard drive sectors or files keep becoming corrupted -- you can rectify this by using Vista's integrated tools to perform a full system recovery.
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Backup Files
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The first step to performing a recovery of your laptop entails backing up your most essential files. To accomplish this, click the Windows orb and then click "Control Panel," "System and Maintenance," "Back Up and Restore Center" and "Back Up Files." From here, you can back up your documents, videos and music files files to another hard disk partition, a CD, a DVD or a network location.
Remove Non-Critical Peripherals
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The next thing you need to do is remove extraneous devices like scanners, printers, modems, PDAs, USB flash drives, external hard drives and external CD/DVD players. This is necessary because the recovery process will delete all files, including the drivers for the peripheral devices. And, if during the recovery the operating system encounters one of these unrecognized devices, the recovery process will fail.
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Restore Factory State
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Restoring your computer to its factory state is where the actual recovery occurs. During this process, your laptop will delete all existing data and replace it with a fresh copy of the operating system. To begin this process, restart your computer and press "F8" to access the Advanced Boot Options menu. From here, select the "Repair Your Computer" option. Press "Enter," specify a language, supply your administrative credentials and click "Dell Factory Image Restore."
Restore Files
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Finally, you must restore all your files. Again, access "System and Maintenance" and click "Back Up and Restore Center" from the Control Panel. This time around, however, click the "Advanced Restore" option. From here, you can specify where your files are located -- another partition, a network drive -- and then restore all your files and folders to their original positions. Depending on how many files you backed up, the process may take more than an hour.
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