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Recovery Disks for inspiron Laptops
Has anybody seen a definitive document stating how I can go about either backups disks from DELL or how I can create from my machine.
I deally, I would like to have backup disks from DELL but I understand DELL is not providing these for cost reasons so my second option is to create my own but I can't see anything on my Windows 8.1 laptop about this. My Toshiba machine had a link on my Desktop to create three DVDs but Dell machine hasn't.
I am based in the UK so if you give me any info here please make sure it is relevant to the UK market.
The machine is Inspiron 15R with 4 years extended warranty expiring in 2018 though, I expect to buy two more machines by then :emotion-1:
Thanks.
ejn63
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March 12th, 2014 10:00
Open the Dell Backup and Recovery program. You create recovery media using that.
Details here:
http://en.community.dell.com/support-forums/software-os/f/4677/t/19471699.aspx
DaveOptiplex
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March 12th, 2014 16:00
OK thanks. I have found it and I have upgraded it (Basic version) to the latest version. I now need to find blank USB drive and/or blank DVDs. I thought it will accept DVD-RW but alas no.
Do you know whether it will accept Dual Layer DVDs? I have pleanty of them as I used to record TV programs but now the technology has all changed and we have set-top boxes with hard disk.
I might actually upgrade to premium version of BARA if this works for me.
Thanks for your post.
ejn63
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March 12th, 2014 18:00
It's far easier to dedicate a 16G flash drive to the task.