j.e.perry@cox.net wrote:
I backed up my W7 system, but I don't want to lose the vendor-supplied recovery partition (there is, of course, no recovery dvd).
Before you do anything else, make a set of the recovery discs. Hi My old DELL system came with Windows 7 32bit Pro (and no recovery
On Tue 04 Jun 2013 07:56:31 AM CDT, James Knott wrote: partition), however for UEFI boot it needs to be 64bit, fortunately the license key works for either, so a google for "digital river" will provide a download of the X64 bit version and another google for "eicfg_removal_utility.zip" will provide a tool that will remove the ei.cfg from any Windows ISO disc image, thereby converting the image into a "universal disc" that will prompt the user to select an edition during setup. The disk works on any system (Acer, HP, Gateway etc) just activate online later and skip the product key request during install. Then it was just a matter of collecting the drivers from the DELL site less all the cruftware.... I then used gdisk to format the drive as required before re-installing Windows7 and openSUSE. -- Cheers Malcolm °¿° (Linux Counter #276890) openSUSE 12.3 (x86_64) Kernel 3.7.10-1.11-desktop up 15:50, 3 users, load average: 0.06, 0.04, 0.13 CPU AMD Athlon(tm) II P360@2.30GHz | GPU Mobility Radeon HD 4200 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org