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

[Bill Pierce]

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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-----Original Message-----
From: Al Hartman <alhartman6 at optonline.net>
To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Sent: Thu, Aug 27, 2015 1:20 pm
Subject: [Coco] OT: Recovery Disc set for Dell Inspiron 15 3520...


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
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