Dell Backup and Recovery 1. Windows 7/8. 1/1. Clean Install) – The Unofficial Windows 1. Reinstallation Guide. This guide instructs how to setup Dell Backup of Recovery on A Clean Installation of Windows 7/8. It does not apply to upgrade installs which have Factory Partitions corresponding to older versions of Windows.
Note the Windows 7/8. Recovery Partition made in this guide is a pseudo–Factory Recovery Partition. This is a snapshot of your system, at the moment you installed Dell Backup and Recovery and restoring to it will not give you the full Windows setup options that a Dell preinstalled with Windows 7/8. OEM will. Anything that says Factory below refers to your pseudo–Factory Recovery Partition. This guide does not apply to Dell systems shipped with Windows 1. OEM. I don’t have a Windows 1.
Perquisites. Dell Hardware. Dell Backup and Recovery will only install on a Dell System. Clean Windows 7/8.1/10 Clean Installation. You must have a Direct Clean. This tutorial will explain how to perform a clean installation of the Windows Vista operating system.
OEM system but the instructions for one of these will be similar to my Dell Backup and Recovery 1. Windows 8. 1/7 guide with the latest version of Dell Backup and Recovery to be used for Windows 1. Testing notes, upgrade Latitude E5. Windows 1. 0 TH2 (Beta) and then attempt to restore using Dell Backup and Recovery. Make Recovery Partition on MBR BIOS Latitude D8. Contents. Windows 7 Tutorial Video.
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Perquisites. Dell Hardware. Dell Backup and Recovery will only install on a Dell System.
Clean Windows 7/8. Clean Installation.
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You must have a Direct Clean Installation of Windows 7/8. If a recovery partition is present Dell Backup and Recovery will attempt to repair it instead of creating a new Recovery Partition. For Windows 8. 1 and Windows 1.
Local Account on the Clean Install so your Microsoft Account isn’t incorporated into your pseudo Recovery Partition. For more details see here: Special Notes on the Windows 1. Upgrade. Due to the way Microsoft deployed the Windows 1. Free Upgrade, you must initially Upgrade. This registers your Dell hardware profile with a Microsoft Product Activation Server. After you must properly Clean Reinstall Windows 1. Checking your System Partitions.
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Check your system partitions. You should have a 1. MB EFI Partition and a 4.
Steps to Clean Install XP. If the above instructions for configuring your system to boot from CD or you have acquired the necessary boot floppy/floppies; you. This guide is obsolete. See Windows OEM FAQs and Downloads for the latest Windows 10 and Windows 7 Downloads and Installation Guides. Windows 10 Windows 10 Tutorial. What Support Expert can do: 1. Virus Removal and protection 2. PC Tune-up & Maintenance 3. Fix slow computer 4. Clean your computer 5.
MB Recovery Partition – these are default partitions setup by Windows 1. UEFI install and have nothing to do with Dell Backup and Recovery.
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For Windows 8. 1 in UEFI these will be similar but perhaps different partition sizes. For a Windows 7 GPT Install (UEFI BIOS) the Disk 0 system partitions should look like this.
You should have a 1. MB EFI Partition these are default partitions setup by Windows 7 in an UEFI install and have nothing to do with Dell Backup and Recovery. On a Windows 1. 0 MBR Install the Disk 0 system partitions should look like this. You should have a 5. MB NTFS System Reserved Partition and the rest of the drive should be your C: Drive.
For a Windows 8. 1 MBR Install the Disk 0 system partitions should look like this. You should have a 3. MB NTFS System Reserved Partition and the rest of the drive should be your C: Drive where Windows is installed. For a Windows 7 MBR Install the Disk 0 system partition should have a 1. MB NTFS System Reserved Partition and the rest of the drive should be your C: Drive where Windows is installed.
Checking your Activation Status. I also recommend checking your Windows 1. Right click the Start Button and then select System: Windows should be activated: Installation of System Drivers and 3rd Party Software. The whole point in installing Dell Backup and Recovery and creating a Recovery Partition is that the Recovery Partition is an image of your Clean Installation which includes all the drivers and programs you have installed. Otherwise you have a Recovery Partition which is useless and has no advantage over generic installation media.
You should install Microsoft Office and 3rd party programs. Note the more 3rd party programs you install and files you copy over the larger the factory partition.
You can get the latest versions of these when your restore to your factory image. I also tend to avoid installation of a security suite, it’ll be out of date by the time you restore to the Recovery Partition. I advise not setting up One. Drive otherwise the files downloaded offline will be incorporated into your Recovery Partition, This can cause hassles later on, for instance if you reorganise your One. Drive and then a year or so later Factory Reset, all your old files will be re- synced and this might create a mess.
I also advise against copying over your user files (Documents, Music, Pictures, Videos) to the system until the Recovery Partition is made otherwise they will be incorporated into the Recovery Partition. To look at the programs you have installed, right click the start button and select Program and Features: All of these programs you have listed here will be incorporated into your Recovery Partition: Theres no point in creating a Factory Image unless you have all the necessary system drivers installed. Right click the Start Button and open the Device Manager: Make sure there are no warnings and that generic drivers aren’t installed for the Display Adapter in particular: If your Device Manager isn’t without errors see: Installing Dell Backup and Recovery.
The latest installer for Dell Backup and Recovery is available here: http: //downloads. FOLDER0. 35. 23. 39. M/3/Backup- and- Recovery. Double click it to launch it: Select yes at the User Account Control: DBa. R will extract and then the install will begin: Select next: Select install: Restart your computer when prompted: When you log in the Dell Backup and Recovery install will continue automatically: This will take some time depending on the size of your drive and the speed of your hardware.
When its ready select Finish: You should now have a new Windows 1. Recovery Partition. To check right click the Start Button and select Disk Management: The C: partition has stunk and there is a ~7. GB partition in my case using a Windows 1. UEFI install as an example.
Your partitions will differ in size depending on how much 3rd party programs you have installed and depending what version of Windows you had and whether you installed in UEFI or MBR. Press the Start button and click to the top left to open the Start Menu. Scroll down to D and left click the Dell folder to expand it.
Then left click Dell Backup and Recovery: Select Yes at the User Account Control: Dell Backup and Recovery will initialise: Check the box to allow Dell to collect the Service Tag and then select Ok: Select next: Here you will be given 3 options to make Recovery Media. Never ever select the Recordable Disk as it cannot boot in a UEFI BIOS. I prefer the Bootable USB Flash Drive but the Bootable USB External Hard Drive also works well. To the top it will tell you how large your Recovery Partition is and how much free space you’ll need in this case 7.
GB. In general a 1. GB USB flash drive is recommended: When Dell Backup and Recovery finds your device it’ll be listed to the top right. Left click it: Then select continue at the bottom: Select yes to format the USB Flash Drive. Note for an external hard drive you won’t need to format the entire hard drive, it will just change the partition to add a FAT3. Dell Backup and Recovery will now copy files to the USB Flash Drive: Select next: You can now opt to get Premium Features such as Cloud Data Backup. Personally I prefer an Office 3.
TB One. Drive. Since this is the new “Factory Settings” there is also no use in doing a data backup at this time so I’ll just select Later and then close Dell Backup and Recovery: Note for multiple HDDs/SSDs. The Setup does not give any options to select HDD/SSD and will automatically install on the largest drive. This can be problematic if you have a 2. GB SSD and 2 TB HDD with the SSD being the Windows Boot Drive. To overcome this issue, physically disconnect all Drives you don’t want to install Windows on. Hold F1. 2 while powering up your computer (at the Dell UEFI BIOS screen): Press . I don’t want to use this in this case in particular as I am installing on a new SSD and want to Factory Reset so I will select Advanced Options.
I will then select Factory Reset and then select next. Dell Backup and Recovery will take some time to prepare the hard drive, restore the system and finalise: When its done you will be prompted for a restart. Before restarting remove the USB Flash Drive or USB External Hard Drive. In my tests clicking restart with them plugged in made the UEFI BIOS default to them as they were the last select boot device. Select restart. After you log in Dell Backup and Recovery will perform some background tasks: Thats it you have performed your Factory Reset from your custom image/USB Recovery Media.