Dell USB recovery tool - Dell 9020 - Upgraded from Windows 7 to Windows 10 - need

Update: I started using the Dell-USB-Recovery Tool - with my service tag being associate with the Windows 7 Professional that comes with the product - Am in the process of downloading at 7gb Windows 7 image?

How do I get a proper recovery tool for my computer (at the state that it is now.... I downloaded/upgraded to a legal copy of Windows 10)

Thanks again

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Create Windows 10 installation media (free):

http://www.microsoft.com/.../windows10

Keep in mind that the Win 10 tool will only reinstall Win 10. It will not install any Dell drivers which you will have to download from Dell's site and install. And it will not install any Dell-installed apps, which you should also be able to download from Dell's site for free.

So an update and things seem only worse on my end

So I prepared a USB OS recovery Windows 7.

I thought well I need to reset to Windows 7. then download DBaR 1.9 Version. Than do the free upgrade (supposedly the DBaR will work if you have it first and I can make my recovery for Windows 10 that way)

Well now I am trying to install Windows 7 from the USB as my hard drive is now formatted

I have the product key on the case

Though during the installing Windows process I get to the question Where do you want to install windows

I have 4 partitions.

1) Recovery (OEM Reserved)

2) system

3) Primary

4) OEM Reserved

Now I am told " Windows cannot be installed to this disk. The selected disk has an MBR partition table. On EFI systems, Windows can only be installed to GPT disks.

I have no idea now what to do?

I can delete, format, of extend, or load driver, or refresh

But I cannot click next no  matter what paritition I choose.

I see the recovery partition does have data used on it can I use that for recovery?

Or

how to I make it so windows allows me to continue to install ... well... windows

There is no windows 7 recovery tool and there is no way to revert the recovery partition after upgrading to 10.  In short the recovery is forever broken.   Dell does not provide a way for the user to create a recovery partition once its been modified.  All you can do is use Diskpart to clear the disk in windows 10 so that you can reinstall windows 7 from scratch.

Windows 7 GUI WILL NOT be able to remove the windows 10 reserved partition etc.  You can boot command prompt DVD and Run Diskpart.  delete partition command doesn't take effect on hidden partitions as well as protected GPT partitions. , you must use another command, which is 'delete partition override'.

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/300415

Now I'm totally confused... If you already updated to Win 10, why are you trying to reinstall Win 7..???

If you want to do a factory reset to Win 7, read this:

www.dell.com/.../restore-or-factory-reset-windows-7-on-your-dell-computer

NOTES: The Win 7 restore partition may no longer be accessible because you updated to Win 10. Even if it is accessible, it will only restore the original version of Win 7 and you will have to install many dozens of updates via Windows Update, which may take hours and numerous reboots.

Read about the differences between GPT and MBR here: technet.microsoft.com/.../dn336946.aspx