[Coco] OT: Recovery Disc set for Dell Inspiron 15 3520...

[camillus]

Hi,

The approach you trying will probably not work. If your portable is setup with the new UEFI bios then the asset number of the portable and the SID number for the version of windows you are using are stored in the bios. You can read the numbers that is not the problem, but you can't get restore image from an other device on yours. 

There are 2 options:

1. you simply buy an dvd/usbstick from Dell with restore data for your device.

2. You look up your windows key in bios with a little tool "readanything", ( ofcourse you need to be able to boot into the system and run this tool ), then set the bios to boot in none UEFI mode and install windows from a borrowed dvd. Must be the same version as yours. Use your key to install. For the activation you probably will have to contact microsoft, but that should be easy, explaining what you problem is/was.

And ofcourse there is also a 3th option, the most unlikely you gonna use is buying a new windows dvd, if you buy a win7 pro, it will automatically upgrade to win10 pro.

Hope this helped?

cb

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On 8/27/2015 1:13:14 PM, Tom Seagrove <tjseagrove at writeme.com> wrote:
I get restore disks from www.restoredisks.com and they are a very reliable business. Comes recommended by many repair techs I deal with. I have used them multiple times.

Tom

On Aug 27, 2015, at 1:54 PM, Al Hartman wrote:

I've been able to access the partition, but the recovery program won't run to make the discs or a CD key.

The two files that make the discs are in a format called .WIM which are a special Microsoft compressed format, and are not ISO files. There is not an easy way to convert these to an ISO file to burn them. Every way I've tried has failed. Dell has been rude and unhelpful. My only hope has been to find someone else with the same model of laptop running the same version of Windows to run the Recovery program to burn me a set of Discs.

There are companies that claim to sell the discs, but I don't trust they are free of malware.

If something doesn't turn up in the next few days, I'll have to live with a generic Windows install and not have all the apps that came with the laptop when I bought it (DVD player, Roxio Burn software, etc...) I can replace most of it shareware/freeware. But I paid for the registered stuff and I'd like to have them back.

-[ Al ]-


-----Original Message----- From: Bill Pierce via Coco

Al, most (if not all) computer distributers now use the separate hidden partition (can't remember what it's called) on the HD as the recovery disk (which in the case of drive failure is useless), which is created on the fly as the system is installed. This reduced the cost of adding (and keeping up with) recovery disks as well as upped their profit margin.
If the drive will still spin and can be read (master boot sector trashed?), then the recovery partition could be accessed. "EasyBCD" is a boot sector recovery system and "PTEdit" will let you access the recovery disk (hidden from windows and dos). I have had to do this a couple of times.
Of course, if the drive is mechanically disabled, you are out of luck :-(

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