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Dell OS reinstallation discs
Posted: Sat Nov 04, 2006 8:43 pm
by Sovereign
I have a reinstallation disc for Windows MCE 2005 that I bought with my E1505. I have a friend who ordered an E1501 (AMD Sempron) without OS reinstallation media. I know the first rule when you get a Dell is to wipe and reinstall the OS...otherwise you have to wade through mountains of crap. Now, is the OS Reinstall CD I have locked to a Dell system in general or my specific system? I don't want to hose the OS and then find out that I can't reinstall...
Posted: Sun Nov 05, 2006 1:53 am
by InspectahACE
no..not from my experience anyway...my grandmother lent me her dell reinstallation cd from some odd reason and i used it on my own custom pc..you'll just have like dell support or a few other things dell in the start menu..from my experience anyway
Posted: Fri Nov 10, 2006 1:00 pm
by moon111
Why would you wipe out the HD? Just because Dell installed it? Go into your services and startup items and edit what you want and don't want. Chances are, you'll have more 'junk' on the HD after a couple of months then you'll ever get from Dell anyways.
It's been awhile since I did support, but at the time, the OEM I worked for stated their OS cd was identical except it checked the BIOS to see if it was the right computer or not. Also, many times an OEM will have recovery tools/partitions/etc that are actually very handy in case something goes wrong.