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Creating Recovery Drives
I have an Inspiron 5559 laptop, that I got in June 2017, shipped with
Windows 10 Home Premium (1709 at the time?). I used the on board "Create a recovery drive" program then to make a USB recovery drive. All went fine. About a year and a half later, as I'm organizing all my USB drives, I could't tell which was for this Dell 5559...poor labeling on my part. I created another USB recovery drive in November, 2017. My question is, whenever one creates a recovery drive using the machine's (Windows) program, is the OS that created on the recovery drive, the current Windows verion that is running on the machine, or is it the original 'as shipped' by the factory version. I would think the program creates at least the currently running version, and perhaps the factory shipped version. Not sure why one would want the factory shipped version (especially in my case, four years later), unless the machine was fairly new, and hadn't required any updates/upgrades, and the user was ok with starting anew. If the currently running version is what's created every time a recovery drive is made, seems sensible to create a new one once in a while. Yes? Thanks. |
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On 19/04/2020 22:23, Boris wrote:
I have an Inspiron 5559 laptop, that I got in June 2017, shipped with Windows 10 Home Premium (1709 at the time?). I used the on board "Create a recovery drive" program then to make a USB recovery drive. All went fine. About a year and a half later, as I'm organizing all my USB drives, I could't tell which was for this Dell 5559...poor labeling on my part. I created another USB recovery drive in November, 2017. My question is, whenever one creates a recovery drive using the machine's (Windows) program, is the OS that created on the recovery drive, the current Windows verion that is running on the machine, or is it the original 'as shipped' by the factory version. I would think the program creates at least the currently running version, and perhaps the factory shipped version. Not sure why one would want the factory shipped version (especially in my case, four years later), unless the machine was fairly new, and hadn't required any updates/upgrades, and the user was ok with starting anew. If the currently running version is what's created every time a recovery drive is made, seems sensible to create a new one once in a while. Yes? Thanks. I think it's whatever you have installed, but not 100% sure as I rarely use Windows any more. I do seem to recall that if you go to Dell's support site it only offers you a copy of whatever was installed when the machine left the factory (in my case Win7). -- Ria in Aberdeen [Send address is invalid, use sipsoup at gmail dot com to reply direct] |
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On 19/04/2020 23:23, Boris wrote:
I have an Inspiron 5559 laptop, that I got in June 2017, shipped with Windows 10 Home Premium (1709 at the time?). I used the on board "Create a recovery drive" program then to make a USB recovery drive. All went fine. About a year and a half later, as I'm organizing all my USB drives, I could't tell which was for this Dell 5559...poor labeling on my part. I created another USB recovery drive in November, 2017. My question is, whenever one creates a recovery drive using the machine's (Windows) program, is the OS that created on the recovery drive, the current Windows verion that is running on the machine, or is it the original 'as shipped' by the factory version. I would think the program creates at least the currently running version, and perhaps the factory shipped version. Not sure why one would want the factory shipped version (especially in my case, four years later), unless the machine was fairly new, and hadn't required any updates/upgrades, and the user was ok with starting anew. If the currently running version is what's created every time a recovery drive is made, seems sensible to create a new one once in a while. Yes? Thanks. Hi, The "Create a recovery drive" program is from Windows, not Dell. So it will not use the Dell recovery partition or any other way of making the drive recover to an "as shipped" version of your OS. It would be good if it gave you that option, IMO. It's a good idea to create a new one once in a while, Microsoft suggest annually. More info he https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/...recovery-drive Kind regards, Steve |
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On 20/04/2020 17:56, Steve wrote:
Hi, The "Create a recovery drive" program is from Windows, not Dell. So it will not use the Dell recovery partition or any other way of making the drive recover to an "as shipped" version of your OS. It would be good if it gave you that option, IMO. It's a good idea to create a new one once in a while, Microsoft suggest annually. More info he https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/...recovery-drive Kind regards, Steve See the Dell support site here https://www.dell.com/support/home/uk...rs/osiso/WT64A -- Ria in Aberdeen [Send address is invalid, use sipsoup at gmail dot com to reply direct] |
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On 20/04/2020 19:07, MissRiaElaine wrote:
On 20/04/2020 17:56, Steve wrote: Hi, The "Create a recovery drive" program is from Windows, not Dell. So it will not use the Dell recovery partition or any other way of making the drive recover to an "as shipped" version of your OS. It would be good if it gave you that option, IMO. It's a good idea to create a new one once in a while, Microsoft suggest annually. More info he https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/...recovery-drive Kind regards, Steve See the Dell support site here https://www.dell.com/support/home/uk...rs/osiso/WT64A Well that is interesting! I didn't know about that. I had a look for my old Inspiron 17R SE 7720 (shipped in October 2012) and there were no images or other options available. Then I had a look for my not-quite-as-old Latitude E5450 (shipped April 2016), and I had the option to download a Windows 8.1 image for manual install. So for a recent, still in warranty XPS 13 7390 laptop, I was given the option to download a Windows 10 image, and have the hardware scanned, backup the data, guided help, install critical drivers etc, etc! Or I could just download the image and install it manually. Good stuff! |
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On 22/04/2020 21:30, Steve wrote:
On 20/04/2020 19:07, MissRiaElaine wrote: See the Dell support site here https://www.dell.com/support/home/uk...rs/osiso/WT64A Well that is interesting! I didn't know about that. I had a look for my old Inspiron 17R SE 7720 (shipped in October 2012) and there were no images or other options available. Then I had a look for my not-quite-as-old Latitude E5450 (shipped April 2016), and I had the option to download a Windows 8.1 image for manual install. So for a recent, still in warranty XPS 13 7390 laptop, I was given the option to download a Windows 10 image, and have the hardware scanned, backup the data, guided help, install critical drivers etc, etc! Or I could just download the image and install it manually. Good stuff! It only gives you the option to install whatever was on the machine when it left the factory, we have three Latitude E6430's here and all we get offered is Win7, which is a fat lot of use given we use Linux..!! I have downloaded the latest firmware updates though, they're easy to install as all you need is a USB stick with FreeDOS on it. -- Ria in Aberdeen [Send address is invalid, use sipsoup at gmail dot com to reply direct] |
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