Hello Kevin Sorry to hear this. The only thing I can think of is a complete start over. I'm sure you have everything you need to do so. If you do have to start over, get the DellUtility installed and working first. Sounds like you did get the  Recovery working, may I ask what command you used to get it going? Another though, you might want to install that DellUtility on a flash drive and not install to the array. You might do a search and see  if posible to have it on just one of the drives apart from the array that might help also. I think I read some where that the Boot can be setup like that also. I feel like you have learned enough that you can get it going again. Keep me posted. Tom
Through some chain of events that apparently involved installing Ubuntu onto a USB flash drive, the "DellUtility" and "RECOVERY" partitions on my hard drive somehow got messed up ... Both partitions still exist and are their original sizes (41 MB and 12 GB, respectively), but neither one seems to be bootable any more, and the "DellUtility" partition somehow "lost" all of its original files ... (However, the "RECOVERY" partition still seems to have all of its original files) ... This is on a Dell Studio XPS 8100 system (now discontinued) running Windows 7 Ultimate Edition, with two 1-TB hard drives configured as a single 2-TB RAID 0 array ... I don't think this is a "critical" problem, because I seem to be able to perform the functions of both partitions using: (a) the Dell "Drivers and Utilities" disc supplied with my system; and (b) the two "System Recovery" DVD's that I created -- from the "RECOVERY" partition, I guess -- when I first set up the system ... But I'd kinda like to have the "original hard drive(s)" with the "original functionality", if possible ... Is there any way to somehow "re-populate" the "DellUtility" partition -- either from the supplied Dell "Drivers and Utilities" disc, or from some other source -- and make it bootable, as it was originally?  Separately, is there any way to make the "RECOVERY" partition bootable, as it was originally?  (I also seem to have its files somewhere on the two "System Recovery" DVD's, if needed) ... It would be perfectly OK if the "OS" partition were to get erased and/or (re-)formatted in the process, since I just (re-)formatted it yesterday and performed a Factory Restore/Recovery onto it ... I can always do that again, if necessary, because I haven't started "using" that partition yet ... Any ideas, suggestions, or advice? Thanks, Kevin  
Any way to fix the "DellUtility" and/or "RECOVERY" partitions?