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

[Al Hartman]

No, Dell sends nothing with the computers. There is a recovery partition. On 
that partition are compressed images of your Recovery Discs (.WIM files). 
You are supposed to run the Dell Backup and Recovery Software and make a 
Recovery USB key or DVD Discs yourself. I forgot to do that for this one 
laptop. I managed to save the files with the images of the disks, but they 
are not ISO files. They are in some Microsoft format I cannot find out how 
to convert these two files from into DVDs.

So, I am SOL unless I find someone with the same model laptop running  the 
same version of Windows who can burn me a set of recovery Discs.

-[ Al ]-



-----Original Message----- 
From: Tom Seagrove


Actually, that is what Dell sends with their computers.  Been getting them 
for years.  You received what Dell would have sent you.

On Aug 31, 2015, at 4:18 PM, Al Hartman <alhartman6 at optonline.net> wrote:

Thumbs down Tom.

They did not send me restore discs. They sent me a Windows 7 Installation 
DVD, Downloaded Drivers burned to a DVD, A DVD with the Roxio Burner 
Software, a DVD with the Power DVD software, and a DVD with the Dell Webcam 
software. No sign of the rest of the preloaded software that came with the 
unit.

I should have gotten 2 DVDs that loaded up the unit in full in less than an 
hour.

I'm returning these discs for a refund.

Thanks for the help Tom.

-[ Al ]-