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

[Arthur Flexser]

If you google ".wim to iso", there's an awful lot that turns up.  Maybe try
some of those solutions?

Art

On Thu, Aug 27, 2015 at 1:54 PM, Al Hartman <alhartman6 at optonline.net>
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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