DELL OS recovery tool doesn't find any installation images

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@FreeFend wrote:

Hello, I've installed a new SDD and provided the service tag in the DELL OS recovery tool to get an image I can use to reinstall the OS, but it's not finding any images related to the specific service tag. Could I ask for some help?

Dell Inspiron N5050 (Windows 7 Home Premium OA).

Cheers

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As far as I know, images are usually available for Windows 7 Pro that came with Latitudes and Precisions not Inspiron which are consumer-grade laptops.

Put back your old hard drive, and use any one of various freeware disk imaging programs to create an image of your old hard drive. Then image your SSD with that image.

There should be various online tutorials. 

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The problem is that the previous HDD is dead, so no way getting into it.

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@FreeFend wrote:

The problem is that the previous HDD is dead, so no way getting into it.

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Oh well.

See if you can borrow a Dell Windows 7 Home Premium DVD from a local PC shop near you.