No more Dells for me

Originally Posted by markem

If the disk is still usable, you should have another partition that has a copy of WinPE or WinRE on it that is bootable. Without an install or recovery CD (DVD) it may be a moot point, but some things are quite happily recoverable from Win/PE and RE.

You can also use that environment to snap an image of your main boot partition while it is not in use.

They used Ghost on that partition. I use Tru Image, and will as soon as I get it all reloaded again.