Recent content by Dave from Lincoln

Nice work, DCH! I am impressed.

I have uploaded the Dell recovery USB image and made it available here: https://copy.com/YWeXbdGg44Yb4fZ4 (Sorry you'll have to cut-n-paste that URL, I didn't realize I have to have 10 posts on the forum before I'm allowed to post a hyperlink) It is quite a bit larger than the Xandros9 image...

Hey DCH, the number I called for Dell Tablet support is 1-800-308-3355. Give them a call and play the game where they walk you through crashing your machine intentionally 2 or 3 times until you get the BIOS screen (or just pretend to do that and play a few games of solitaire before you tell...

I ended up calling Dell and very patiently let them walk me through booting to get to BIOS and running diagnostics and trying to refresh and/or reset my machine. Of course, I had already tried all of this and knew that it would not work, but I do know enough about how support desks work to know...

I am in the same boat. I have bricked my DV8 by removing the recovery partition. I did create a recovery disk on USB first, and booted from the USB and made sure the recovery options were there, but did not actually *do* a recovery to make sure. Then I went ahead and ignored warnings and...