Lost your Dell laptop recovery disk? Any Dell disk will do.

If you have ever experienced the panic that comes along with needing to reformat your laptop HD but you can't find the exact recovery disc that came with it, worry no more. While I was at work we had this issue present itself and I had to be creative to solve it. We have hundreds of different Dell laptop models running around the tech departments and no one person has ALL of the model specific recovery discs for each model. I did some research and through trying some different things I found that a Dell C840 recovery disc will work with a Dell D620 machine. The recovery discs aren't model specific at all, only the OS is the difference. So, if you lose your recovery disc for that old laptop, pop the newer laptop recovery disc into it and format away.