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burlmart
Explorer
Aug 08, 2014

Win 8.1 recovery ... BIOS does not see HD on Dell

The boot process now takes a minute vs maybe 20 sec before. The recovery disc Dell sent us worked strangely. The laptop came w/ W8, and I think Dell did something to their recovery media such that...
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Bobbo
Explorer III
Aug 08, 2014
When my laptop died a few weeks ago, I searched around and found a Dell laptop at Costco that still came with Windows 7 Professional and bought it. When I got it home, I noticed that the Windows restore disc that came with it was Windows 8.1. I called Dell and made them send me a Windows 7 Professional recovery disc. I will be able to avoid Windows 8.1 until this laptop dies.

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