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

[Al Hartman]

My laptop hard drive has crashed, and I had to order a new one.

Stupidly, I never ran the utility to make a set of recovery DVDs (2 - DVD+Rs). Dell won’t send them to me because the laptop is out of warranty. They will send me a generic Windows 7 DVD, but not the Recovery DVD with the drivers and the pre-loaded software, which I would prefer to have.In fact, they  got very nasty with me, when I said that I didn't  want a Windows 7 DVD, I wanted the recovery discs. They said they didn't exist, and it was impossible to get them

As a former technician with CompUSA who  had binders of restore discs for Compaq, HP, IBM, Apple, Packard Bell, and Toshiba systems we serviced... I'm sure their service centers have discs for every system ever made by Dell and could easily run off a set for me in the name of customer service.

So, I am SOL. I don't trust eBay or the on-line sites that claim to sell them to be free of malware. My only hope is to find someone else with the same laptop, and have them make me a set.

Does anyone on the list know anyone with a Dell Inspiron 15 3520 Laptop that could burn me a set of restore DVDs?

This laptop runs Windows 7 Professional 64bit, and that is the recovery set I would need.

Thanks!

-[ Al ]-