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Dell Backup and Recovery vs. File History
I'm dealing with two Inspiron 3847's that have identical hardware.
PC #1 is running a factory-installed Win 8.1 and is waiting in the queue for Win 10. On this system I used Dell Backup and Recovery from the start menu and chose Factory Recovery Media. Contents of the resulting USB flash drive was:
| Boot |
File Folder |
| EFI |
File Folder |
| preload |
File Folder |
| AOUTORUN |
Setup Information |
| BOOTMGR |
File |
| BOOTMGR.EFI |
File |
| MASTER |
Text Document |
| Media |
Icon |
PC #2 is running Win 10, upgraded from a factory installed Win 8.1. On this one I used:
Control Panel->System and Security->File History->Recovery->Create a Recovery Drive
I chose the option to copy the recovery partition. Contents of this USB flash drive was:
| boot |
File Folder |
| efi |
File Folder |
| sources |
File Folder |
| bootmgr |
File |
| bootmgr.efi |
File |
| reagent |
XML Document |
Both flash drives show the exact amount of space used - just over 10 Gb.
So what's the difference? OS differences aside, should these two recovery drives be functionally equivalent for their respective PCs?
By the way, I used the File History option on the Win 10 system because I could no longer even find how to run D.B.R. But I see discussions in the community about upgrades to this application for Windows 10 so I guess it's supposed to be there somewhere - yes/no?