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Old April 22nd 20, 09:30 PM posted to alt.sys.pc-clone.dell
Steve
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Default Creating Recovery Drives

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!