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.


On 2016-07-13 07:31, Stephen Partington wrote:

Well, you can try any windows 8.1/7 disk and perform the upgrade from
that. It might allow you to do so.

On Tue, Jul 12, 2016 at 5:50 PM, Keith Smith
<techlists@phpcoderusa.com> wrote:

Hi,

I bought a Dell i5 several years ago and put Linux Mint on it and
parked it. I do not have a recovery disk. I would like to put Win
10 on it. Dell says they will send me a USB drive with an image on
it for 8.1 for $20. USB will take 3 days to arrive.

The goal is to install 8.1 on it and then take advantage of the
free Win 10 upgrade.

Any work around?

Thanks!!

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