Windows Recovery Dell

[Jannet Nevels]

Iwanted to upgrade my hard drive and couldn't because the dell windows 10 OEM media DVD wont reinstall.. Why is that? I had to put the OEM hard drive back in the PC because the dell windows 10 media only is a repair dvd not a full restore to factory DVD like Dell had in the previous operating systems. I have a Dell E7470 laptop. Can someone tell me why they include a DVD repair instead of recovery dvd with your computer now a days?

With Windows 10, Dell doesn't provide a restore program or discs or anything of the like. You have to go into the Windows 10 search bar (cortana bar) and search restore or restore disc. A program will pop up that will allow you to make restore discs or a usb.

Saltgrass - If my hard drive failed how would I have the option to do that? I have a Dell OEM windows 10 Pro 64bit DVD Recovery disc that came with my laptop. It does give me the option to reset but states the partition is missing.. I am really talking about a new drive here not the OEM hard drive. So in the past with windows 7, I would boot to the dvd and reinstall. This DVD doesnt let me.

BeamerMT79 - Of course they do - I wouldnt have stated that I have in my hands a Dell OEM windows 10 Pro DVD. So what if my hard drive crashed and no partition available? No way to get on the internet?? I am just saying the Restore DVD isnt a Restore DVD? It just seems like they gave out a Windows 10 Repair DVD..

I was able to get windows 10 installed but I had to download the image on a usb and reinstall. BUT - What if I didnt have the internet and ONLY the DVD? How does one use that DVD to restore the computer?

I replaced the drive on my system and used the Recovery Drive to Reset to factory on the new drive. I do not know exactly what media you have and how it works, so just letting you know to see if there was that possibility.

Any installation media shipped with the system or retail installation is obsolete... Microsoft Update their Windows 10 .iso every 3 or so months. The latest mainstream build is the RS1 build 14393 .iso.

Win 10, yes but I did not use a DVD, just the Recovery Drive I created with Windows. I had not considered using a Reset option one a new drive, but I knew the Recovery should reinstall so I tried it and it worked.

The Recovery drive also uses 3.5 GB for windows plus another 5 GB for the OEM utilities. But since you can reinstall Win 10 by just downloading the Install Media from Microsoft, they may not be providing full Factory Resetl media, as was suggested, I believe.

I am using Windows 10. When I am into the bios setup of my pc, I don't know what happened (I Might have pressed any key) my pc(dell) started recovering to Ubuntu and I let that happen. Can I know why it happened like that? My windows was gone now. Is it because my windows license has expired?

Now when ever I restart my pc it's showing like "preparing automatic repair" and then "diagnosing your pc" and finally an error that it cannot diagnise and showing two options shutdown or advances options. In advanced options after clicking on "use a device" and then clicking on "Ubuntu" I was able to log into the system(Ubuntu) ...

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