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Dell Recovery
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I'm looking for a way of storing the Dell recovery media written to a usb flash drive.
The laptop is a Dell Inspiron 3531, the owner has not made any recovery media.
It's now prompting every time it's turned on.
I've got a 16Gb flash drive, 8.5GB is required, so ok there.
The trouble is, I need this drive for other things.
Has anyone had success storing as an .iso, then writing back to a flash drive?
Under Linux it should be as easy as
dd if=/dev/sdx of=/path/to/image.iso
to create the iso and
dd if=/path/to/image.iso of=/dev/sdx
to write it back to the USB stick. But be CAREFUL to specify the right device "sdx", especially when writing back the iso. Otherwise you could delete the wrong hard disk.0
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