Dell Windows 8 64-bit Home Premium Torrent
Casandro Diveley
My post might be a little late but for anyone coming into this problem, I would just advise to backup your network drivers on a usb and simply use the microsoft tool to create the latest iso. After that download SupportAssist, Dell Update and SupportAssist OS Recovery Plugin, update everything from the first two then run Windows Updates. Dell has completly messed this part up by listing OUTDATED ISO's with no info, no versions, all over the place. What a mess..
The A00-A05 for certain show the release going from lower to higher. The two versions without info have to be tested and I just guessed there. The 201YYY, 9663HA and VTRMM prefixes are also not explained and no way of knowing without actually installing them.
Edit: If you're absolutely not sure which one to choose, get a USB stick and download the OS Recovery Tool to create a bootable Dell Windows 10 ISO directly which will probably not be the latest windows has to offer but saves you the hassle of choosing one of these standalone ISO's.
I was looking to make sure I had the latest iso from Dell for my machine to install fresh on a new drive, worked like a dream, other than the 3 hours of various updates (dell drivers, windows updates, etc) but I am focused on this image because it has exactly the correct drivers and you don't have to go to dell website and pull drivers manually. Unless some won't update of course, I had to uninstall SupportAssist and download/re-install but that was it.
I see we both got our question answered in that regard but you also asked if you are OK to install on top of everything. Yes just shrink and make the space, so long as the image you are burning and the OS drive are both formatted the same - either gpt for uefi or mbr for legacy bios allowing custom roms which you may need to do for the various linux builds, you'd have to see if you can install via gpt and if so, do that the whole way but you are limited to 4 partitions with mbr.
You likely resolved this 2 years ago either on your own or getting info from elsewhere because no one directly answered that question for you. Either way, hope it pans out and just listing this answer for the next person who asks and ends up here like I did!
I'll add that if you are doing GPT then legacy is disabled in bios, but if MBR then enable legacy and legacy roms in bios, and make sure safeboot is disabled. If you create a USB installer for some linux version and go to install it and it is different format than your OS already is, it will not work!
The OS Recovery tool you mention later in comments is something you install on Windows and use to create a USB for Recovery in the event of a critical failure or corruption, it is a way to re-install Windows and repair bad files. When you download the tool, it checks your system and makes a disk based on what you are logged into (Example Windows 10 1809 or 1803) so when you update significantly, you want a new recovery drive created of course otherwise you'll rewind your windows version a little bit during recovery leaving you to install more updates once you get logged in.
The OS Recovery tool isn't what I would use to install windows. I would download the iso, use cmd/diskpart to clean and set as GPT, format as fat32 and then run rufus to burn the windows iso to the USB. Rufus is a free program that does it absolutely correctly and I have used it ever since I knew what an iso was, after trying a few windows-native tools and other online tools that are out there. This is essentially what you get when you pay couple hundred to microsoft and they ship you a USB. This is also perfect for running windows repairs because its like old school days when you re-instert the windows disk to repair/recover from corruption or critical failure of sorts.
Installing windows can mess up your grub menu for loading linux or windows, being able to choose. It may go straight into windows when you reboot. You'll have to run some linux repairs which I had to use once, I followed this guide about 5 years ago when setting up using MBR partitioning scheme to install windows 10 and ubuntu on an old $80 windows xp laptop I found at a pawnshop that had an impressive processor. maxed the ram and used an SSD of course, works better than most $500 machines at best buy.
Long story short I had a disc come with a new system that I purchased recently. I removed the original drive and installed a black Samsung SSD drive and figures since the PC came with the Dell OEM Windows 10 disc I could install it directly from there instead of installing Window 7, then upgrading to 10 using the media creation tool. My problem was that the setup would not start. I forget the exact error but it said something along the lines of missing partition required for install
The OEM system DVD's I keep mentioning have setup and everything to install on ANY Dell. I got one of those "Dell" disks its absolutely useless. Its not bootable and only works when you have the old DBAR recovery partition. Doesn't work with current models or a blank hard drive.
The Microsoft flash drives for 1803 and earlier work for install of 32 bit or 64 bit HOME or PRO windows 10. I'm not guessing what works or not. I'm telling you what works on ALL DELL MODELS that support windows 10.
Wow thanks for the details. I'll have to give that a shot when I get another new PC in my hands. Just last night I though of a workaround and used the Windows 10 media creation tool and made a bootable USB but haven't had a chance to test it out yet. That may work too
Just wanted to say thanks for posting this, it was very helpful. You would think the "reset my computer" would be the correct course of action but as you probably know that just sends you into "unable to find partition" ***.
I just got a Precision 7510 workstation laptop. It had Win 7 Pro on it. I figured I'd wipe it clean & install Win 10 Pro on it before setting it up & installing all my software. I have an external USB optical drive & the computer came with the purple VM3V3 disc: "Dell. Operating System. Already installed on your computer. Windows 10 Pro. 64-bit. Use this disc only to reinstall the operating system on a Dell computer. This disc is not for the reinstallation of programs or drivers..."
I kept using the Reset menu selection & always ended up with "Unable to reset your PC. A required drive partition is missing." Except for the 1 time I instead got "There was a problem resetting your PC." No more helpful a message than the other was. I tried all sorts of cleans, formats, disk partition utilities, you name it. I learned so much about the Diskpart program this past week!
After following these steps, I had to get the Wi-Fi driver from Dell & install that manually, then the rest of the Device Manager issues went smoothly. Windows 10 is still doing a few giant updates, as expected from using an oldish installation disc, but all is progressing properly.
Two hours on the Dell support phone call; between *** technician headsets worn by the people who speak English as a second language, there was little to no help. Finally got over to David in software support helped me identify how to proceed. The problem was in the boot list option from Legacy to UEFI. once this was corrected through the F12 startup there were no problems with restart.
Can this DVD been used for third party PC ? I had my previous Dell elite desk with the motherboard got fryed.. I just purchase a new board, and intended to use this CD to install back win10.. is it applicable ?
There is no point in using the Dell install DVD which is several versions of Windows 10 behind 1803 unless you enjoy waiting for each Windows 10 updates to download and install. Depending on your internet speed this could take hours.
I think its strange that dell only includes 32bit of Windows 7 considering the processor can run a 64bit OS. Plus other dell laptops and other laptops by HP,etc all seem to have Win 7 Home x64 as the default OS. Could it be possbile to upgrade the default win7 on the vostro without paying for an upgrade to home pro for the 64 bit
The 3400 can be configured with either 32-bit or 64-bit Windows 7. Often businesses will order 32-bit for potential compatability reasons with legacy, proprietary, and often very expensive software, but 64-bit can be configured at the time of order or installed after the fact, as Dell does have drivers for it. A direct upgrade from 32-bit to 64-bit is not possible ... you would need to to a clean/full install of 64-bit. Whether or not you can manage that without paying for it is another story. The Product Key on your computer will work for either version, but Dell will not send you the 64-bit disks if you ordered it with 32-bit. Your best bet ... return it and order it with the OS that you need. Alternatively, if you have a 64-bit installation DVD that came with another machine, you can use it to install on your 3400 without violating any licensing.
I prefer to use 32 bit version of any kind of winodws. It supports all softwares very well without facing any problem. I think 32 version is better if youy don't have any special purpose which needs to be run on windows 64 bit.
I ended up going to the dell website and put my service tag in to get the drivers that way, however they didn't work. I had my friend look over my computer and he asked why I put 32bit windows on when I should of put 64 bit and he said that is whats causing the drivers not to work. Is he series is that the cause? Do I need to reinstall windows again?
Okay for drivers, the ones crossed out are 64 bit only. The ones with the italic black writing are both 32 and 64 bit. The blue hyperlinks are 32 bit equivalent drivers fot the ones that are 64 bit only. The ones with the * I think will work but I'm not sure because of the exact wording, you should try these and let me know if they work.
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