Dell Optiplex 9010 Driver Recovery And Drivers Installation Dvd Disk

Anyone know what's actually on the purple 'Windows 10 Pro 64-bit' Operating System DVD supplied with Optiplex 3040's?Unlike the previous models it isn't Microsoft media and doesn't offer the normal setup options. It seems to only offer to recover a broken installation.I tried the recovery option on a spare HD to see if it would actually install Windows 10, and it basically trashed the OS that was on that disk, leaving it completely unbootable with what looked like a corrupt partition table. Good thing I didn't try it on the original disk.I've just set the 3040 to install Windows 10 from Microsoft media. Seems like a better idea. I used one of these on a 3240 AIO and it took absolutely ages to restore (i5 with 8GB ram and took over 5 hours).

The only modifications to the image are OEM additions to the system information screen. All product keys on any new devices are embedded on the motherboard now so you can just use a regular windows 10 media to reinstall themThis has the added advantage of being able to get the latest iso from Microsoft instead of using the aged version on the disk (it's not anniversary update)Unlike previous Dell disks the Windows 10 ones don't appear to have any extra software on them.You need to make sure if going from preinstalled windows 7 to windows 10 that UEFI is enabled in the BIOS. It's not possible to do an in place upgrade from windows 7 with one of these disks due to the GPT partition table needed instead of MBR.

Freedom IT Solutions wrote:Used one of these to convert a Windows 7 downgrade into the Windows 10 that the machine was advertised as having out of sheer curiosity. Took 4 hours and then wouldn't boot - Useless!Used my Win 10 Media and was up and running in 20 - absolutely insane, just chuck it in the bin!Specifically this Purple Media seems to have a captured WIM on it using the Windows 'create a recovery drive feature' that it then restores.FWIW, Dell and other OEM's have been doing this since the XP days.

The 'restore' CD's were an image that contained drivers for the hardware and often the bloatware that shipped with the PC. If you were lucky, you'd get an unadulterated Windows disk and a separate drivers disk. (Business class machines were more likely to get those.). Matt8655 wrote:Sid Phiilips wrote:Matt8655 wrote:Sid Phiilips wrote:Matt8655 wrote:Aren't Win10 product keys in the bios now?

Assuming the device has shipped with a Win10 disk I would assume it also has a UEFI Bios with the key embedded? (Might be wrong or missing something)They've never been on those disks.Making the post I was referring to redundant?Not all, just confirming what you said:)Cheers, Thought I was missing something, hahaMaybe I'm misunderstanding what he is talking about, but Dell has never had keys in their DVD's, they are all the same.

DaSchmoo wrote:Freedom IT Solutions wrote:Used one of these to convert a Windows 7 downgrade into the Windows 10 that the machine was advertised as having out of sheer curiosity. Took 4 hours and then wouldn't boot - Useless!Used my Win 10 Media and was up and running in 20 - absolutely insane, just chuck it in the bin!Specifically this Purple Media seems to have a captured WIM on it using the Windows 'create a recovery drive feature' that it then restores.FWIW, Dell and other OEM's have been doing this since the XP days. The 'restore' CD's were an image that contained drivers for the hardware and often the bloatware that shipped with the PC. If you were lucky, you'd get an unadulterated Windows disk and a separate drivers disk. (Business class machines were more likely to get those.)You are correct, but I can confirm that these Dell Windows 10 DVD's and USB's are indeed different from their past disks. It will not work for a fresh install, I just tried it.

Damn and I thought I was missing something too!I don't get into the pc level repairs too much anymore but my tech was on vacation last week and we of course had a hard drive fail at an outside agency field office that I had to go take care of.Of course Dell won't ship you a replacement hard drive with a w10 image, so I had to upgrade it manually. Threw one of these in and couldn't for the life of me figure out what I was missing. Start to finish, including the w10 updates, it took over 20 hours for the laptop to be 'ready'. After messing with it for a while, I figured out that it was just restoring the w10 image on the hdd, then running the after processes which took forever. Had I known, I would have just downloaded a 10 image from microsoft.Dell, you guys are idiots sometimes.

BTW, on a 5570, you should just be able to pull two screws and remove the drive like a 5540 had out the side. You're literally making things more difficult for the sake of making them more difficult. Having the drive and battery buried like you are should make the design simpler and cheaper to manufacture. But from what I recall, the same spec'd 5570 costs about $100 more than a 5540 used to.Dell, sometimes I wish someone would come along and kick your asses like you did to the PC industry back when I got my first Dimension 4100. Congrats on being the Donald Trump of the PC industry, we only chose you because you're not worse than the other guys.

Sid Phiilips wrote:I had no idea this disk was so worthless. So, let's say you have an Optiplex 9010, free upgraded from 7 to 10, drive crashes hard. Are you just screwed?No, just get the official 'Anniversary' Windows 10 iso from microsoft.com. In spite of not being OEM media as such, this will activate on an OEM computer that's designed to take Windows 10.As pointed out there are also recovery images on the Dell site which do work. Advantage is they will probably have drivers slipstreamed, disadvantage is some junk slipstreamed as well. I'd just go for getting the drivers, not all that many to do anyway on Win10, and there's that satisfying feeling of having a junk-free computer. Well, except for Cortana,.

And.BTW I also set up a 3040 with a Dell 'blue' Win7 SP1 DVD and the install went straightforwardly. Some people have reported SATA driver issues with installing Win7 from other media, but with the Dell disk I didn't need to slipstream anything. The disk interface is AHCI mode only on this model, and apparently differs from the 3010/3020.So- Win10: Use Microsoft media.

Dell Optiplex 9010 Driver Recovery And Drivers Installation Dvd Disk Software

Win7 - Use a Dell blue DVD and downloaded drivers. Matt8655 wrote:Aren't Win10 product keys in the bios now? Assuming the device has shipped with a Win10 disk I would assume it also has a UEFI Bios with the key embedded? (Might be wrong or missing something)Actually I do not know where the CDkey is stored, but it looks like the PC manufacturer like Dell and HP have some sort of 'tracking' on the hardware such that these 'customised' media kits will work on their hardware.In the past, Dell XP CDss have like certain models media while others need to work with the drivers CDs. It depends on which model and which region you are in.