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- # Dell OS Recovery Tool Under Linux Mini-HOWTO
- Since I was unable to find a specific answer to how can one create a Dell recovery disk from within Linux, I decided to write the steps here.
- If you write the CD image directly to the USB drive (or create a new partition and write it there), the laptop will not boot. You need your USB
- media to be in FAT32 format with the contents of the recovery ISO.
- 1. Download the recovery ISO from the support section of Dell website.
- 2. Insert a USB Drive with enough capacity to hold the contents of the ISO image.
- 3. Format the drive and create a filesystem where `$USB_DEVICE` is your USB drive (check with `fdisk -l`, it may be
- something like `/dev/sdb`) :
- ```
- # parted $USB_DEVICE
- (parted) mklabel msdos
- (parted) mkpart primary fat32 0% 100%
- (parted) quit
- # mkfs.vfat -n DellRestore ${USB_DEVICE}1
- ```
- 4. Copy the contents of the ISO file to the new FAT32 partition:
- ```
- # mkdir /mnt/{source,target}
- # mount -o loop,ro ~/Downloads/2DF4FA00_W10x64ROW_pro\(DL\)_v3.iso /mnt/source
- # mount ${USB_DEVICE}1 /mnt/target
- # rsync -r /mnt/source/. /mnt/target/
- # umount /mnt/source
- # umount /mnt/target
- ```
- 5. Reboot and start your machine from the USB drive.
- This should have been obvious, but I've spent a few hours testing various ways to boot from that ISO
- (unetbootin, writing the image directlry to drive, writing to first partition), so I hope it is going
- to be useful to somebody else as well.
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