I was thinking of doing this and was wondering if its possible. I have been doing some googling and found out that Dell uses some type of "EISA" which is an older form of FAT partitions. Hitting Ctrl+F11 would trigger the recovery to start. But I could not find something that would work. Could you guys help me out? maybe you know of guides?
Anyways I build computers for friends and relatives, and would like to make this possible.

Thanx

P.S.
Would it work with OSx86?

Hp use this software to create the recovery partition :

http://pcangelsolutions.com/index.htm

but it s a commercial one ...

You can use those tools to make it freely but it s quite a pain :

http://www.msfn.org/board/hidden-restore-p...ion-t47773.html
http://www.911cd.net/forums//index.php?showtopic=12447
http://www.911cd.net/forums//index.php?showtopic=18480
http://www.boot-land.net/forums/index.php?showtopic=334
http://www.msfn.org/board/System-recovery-...ion-t84411.html


Norton ghost seems to be the best alternative to me ...but you won t get this F10 thing


Hope this helps