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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.

Download the recovery ISO from the support section of Dell website.
Insert a USB Drive with enough capacity to hold the contents of the ISO image.
Format the drive and create a filesystem where $USB_DEVICE is your USB drive (check with fdisk -l, it may be

Warning

I can only confirm that this works on SanDisk Clip Sport devices. You might be able to use that guide for other devices based on ATJ212X SoCs, but you are on your own.

This guide instructs you to run unverified code from arbitrary GitHub repositories, including as root. You should use a system that you aren't afraid to brick. You can use a VM with USB pass-through, though I YOLO'd this on a physical machine.

This guide will erase your data on the SanDisk Clip Sport, if that device is functional, so if you want to backup the

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