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How to reinstall windows 8.1 on my inspiron 7000 14"?
Lately I've been experiencing huge performance degradation on my 6-month old inspiron 7000 laptop. I want to do a reinstallation of OS, but don't know where to start as Dell included no OS dvd and this laptop doesn't even have a DVD drive. Any heads-up would be appreciated.
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July 22nd, 2014 10:00
You'll need a 16G or larger flash drive to make a recovery medium. Use the Dell Backup and recovery utility on the hard drive to prepare a bootable, factory recovery drive.
You CAN recover the system without this, but you will need it if you ever have to replace a hard drive (or SSD), so make the recovery media now. The same utility (Dell Backup and Recovery) can be used to take the system back to its factory condition.
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July 22nd, 2014 11:00