<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif">If you can download an ISO you can use Rufus to write the data to any USB drive (4GB+ 8GB reccomended)</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jul 13, 2016 at 7:38 AM, Keith Smith <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:techlists@phpcoderusa.com" target="_blank">techlists@phpcoderusa.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><br>
I'm sure what you say is true. I'm wondering how I might get 8.1 back on the machine w/o needing the dell USB drive.<span class=""><br>
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On 2016-07-13 07:31, Stephen Partington wrote:<br>
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Well, you can try any windows 8.1/7 disk and perform the upgrade from<br>
that. It might allow you to do so.<br>
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On Tue, Jul 12, 2016 at 5:50 PM, Keith Smith<br>
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Hi,<br>
<br>
I bought a Dell i5 several years ago and put Linux Mint on it and<br>
parked it. I do not have a recovery disk. I would like to put Win<br>
10 on it. Dell says they will send me a USB drive with an image on<br>
it for 8.1 for $20. USB will take 3 days to arrive.<br>
<br>
The goal is to install 8.1 on it and then take advantage of the<br>
free Win 10 upgrade.<br>
<br>
Any work around?<br>
<br>
Thanks!!<br>
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