O/T: No Dell Recovery Disk.....

[Stephen Partington]

If you can download an ISO you can use Rufus to write the data to any USB
drive (4GB+ 8GB reccomended)

On Wed, Jul 13, 2016 at 7:38 AM, Keith Smith <techlists at phpcoderusa.com>
wrote:

>
> 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 at 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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>> --
>>
>> A mouse trap, placed on top of your alarm clock, will prevent you from
>> rolling over and going back to sleep after you hit the snooze button.
>>
>> Stephen
>>
>>
>>
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A mouse trap, placed on top of your alarm clock, will prevent you from
rolling over and going back to sleep after you hit the snooze button.

Stephen
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