I have an Inspiron 3452 that I need to restore to factory default. When I attempted to do so I got the message that there was not enough space to do so. I booted to command prompt and formatted drive C:. System will boot for troubleshooting but option to restore is not present. I downloaded and installed the "Dell OS Recovery Tool" and then downloaded the 6.37GB file to create the recovery drive. When I use the Recovery Tool is spends about 30 seconds "creating" the USB drive. The drive is not bootable. When I look at the drive it has a README file that says the drive has a UDF file system and requires an OS that can read it (I have Windows 10). It also has a [BOOT] folder which contains 2 files: 1-Boot-NoEmul and 2-Boot-NoEmul, 4Kb and 1Kb respectively. The drive is a 16GB stick with 64Kb used. To install the Recovery Tool I did have to open a command prompt as admin because installing the normal way I got errors 2503 and 2502.
Does anybody have any suggestions? I could just use my Windows 10 USB stick but would like to have all of the original software back.
Thanks in advance for any help