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    Possible to completely image the drive of my XPS 15 (9550)?

    Discussion in 'Dell XPS and Studio XPS' started by Sanchez123, Feb 26, 2016.

  1. Sanchez123

    Sanchez123 Notebook Enthusiast

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    I just got my new 9550, and before messing around with it, e.g., installing dual-boot with Ubuntu, I want to image the drive, including the recovery partitions. Is there any software that will do that?

    With my last XPS 15, I had a corrupted recovery partition (dell backup and recovery crashed during an update), and it prevented me from creating any install media, or restoring to factory state, which was pretty annoying when it came time to give that machine away.

    So looking for solutions that will capture the recovery partition(s). Dids management seems to show 2 of them - one 450 MB partition, and one 11.47 GB one.
     
    Sanchez123, Feb 26, 2016
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  2. custom90gt

    custom90gt Doc Mod Super Moderator

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    I think clonezilla will work for you, it even works with NVME drives.
     
    custom90gt, Feb 26, 2016
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  3. SonyHome

    SonyHome Notebook Geek

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    I think you can use "Backup and Restore (Windows 7)" option under control panel in Windows 10. I have used this in the past to backup and restore the whole hard drive image.
     
    SonyHome, Feb 27, 2016
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  4. Schmoo2k

    Schmoo2k Notebook Consultant

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    You can also download an official Win 10 XPS 15 9550 ISO from the drivers download page (it will be specific to your service tag) - good to have in your back pocket...
     
    Schmoo2k, Feb 27, 2016
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    GoNz0 Notebook Virtuoso

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    Macrium Reflect free does a great job.
     
    GoNz0, Feb 27, 2016
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    erick_e Notebook Geek

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    I tried that and it didn't have any of drivers or preinstalled software.
     
    erick_e, Feb 27, 2016
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    lancorp Notebook Virtuoso

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    Used Macrium this weekend after everything else failed to do just this. Even Clonezilla and it's wonky interface. The free trial allows you to build a bootable USB recovery/clone drive that is very functional.
    It works so well, I would buy it (if I needed a backup program, which I don't).

    Highly recommended.
     
    lancorp, Mar 14, 2016
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