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

[Stephen H. Fischer]

At least you are not in the position I was when 20 MB was too small and the 60 MB SCSI drive from Fry's would not work.

I finally found out that Toshiba had swapped the SCSI interface end to end and top to bottom preventing a standard SCSI drive to be installed.

The .5" PC mylar was the most complex you could ever believe that translated the non standard SCSI signals to standard SCSI signals.

To top it off Toshiba had no drives that could be installed even though they offered a 60 GB drive at one time.

Surprise, that was the last Toshiba item ever purchased, new Laptop purchased with Windows 3.1 and I planned to use MSDOS only. Plan failed.

Keep those WIM files just in case, or burn them to a BluRay.

SHF
  
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Al Hartman" <alhartman6 at optonline.net>
To: "CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts" <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Sent: Thursday, August 27, 2015 9:25 PM
Subject: Re: [Coco] OT: Recovery Disc set for Dell Inspiron 15 3520...


> Well, in any event I ordered a set of discs as recommended by Tom Seagrove. 
> So, I should be all set.
> 
> I intend to write a scathing letter to Dell Corporate tomorrow and PC World 
> Magazine about the lack of customer service. I've bought a lot of systems 
> from Dell, both directly, used on eBay, and caused others in my family to 
> buy Dell. I really expected to be treated better by them. They recently 
> cancelled my credit line, and this is the last straw. My next system will be 
> a Gateway or Lenovo.
> 
> -[ Al ]-
> 
> -----Original Message----- 
> From: Stephen H. Fischer
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I never thought that you had a W10 computer.
> 
> You got me looking at the hard drive of my Sony W7 laptop.
> 
> There are two unusual partitions, one is just like the Windows 7 System 
> Repair Disk I had sitting in my active HTPC and needed it to use often 
> because I had messed up the booting between XP, W7 and W10. That computer's 
> power supply failed and I had to swap in the backup HTPC. New PS to be 
> installed tomorrow.
> 
> Reading the "decrypt.cmd" script I found http://wimlib.net/ and 
> "oscdimg.exe", the latter is used by the script to build the ".iso" and the 
> former to get the WIM files ready. Both are included in the download file.
> 
> It appears using these tools they can be used for Vista and above systems to 
> create the ".iso" like you wish from the ".wim" files you have.
> 
> Understanding the exact options you need for wimlib and oscdimg was not part 
> of my exercise.
> 
> The ".wim" files I saw being created as one step in the process have been 
> deleted from the USB flash drive I used.
> 
> SHF
> 
> 
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