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Dell Laptop: Reformat, Possible Driver Issues

  • 16-11-2005 11:17am
    #1
    IronMan
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    Hello,

    I bought a new Dell 9300 laptop. It comes with a 60Gb hardrive, 3GB of which are taken with the Dell Recovery Partition. I want to format this drive totally, and install my copy of XP Pro (licenced) instead. However, Dell do not provide a CD with drivers installed on it, which is quite stupid. The laptop came with XP Home, and while most of the pre-installed software is crap, I would like to have PowerDVD etc after the re-install. Once again, Dell do not provide a CD with all the OEM software installed on it. However I paid for this software, as part of the total laptop price. Does anyone know if Dell provide a recovery CD with drivers, and OEm software installed on it? Where can this be got. I have had a good look around on their site, and can see that I can download the drivers manually, but if I cannot find back-ups for the software I need. Has anyone managed to get this CD/stuff off them.

    I will call them later if needed, but would like to get an answer here first if possible.


Comments

  • #2
    roamer
    Closed Accounts Posts: 299 ✭✭roamer


    If you ring them up they'll send it out straight away.


  • #3
    irlrobins
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,541 ✭✭✭irlrobins


    According to this you'll need to contact Dell.

    Read last comment on that page

    I could live with having to burn my own XP cd, but not having CD's for all the drivers and stuff. Agh!

    I think a lot of manufacturers are going this way. Boo!!!!:mad:


  • #4
    Mac daddy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,942 ✭✭✭Mac daddy


    Can you not just create a unattended installation and add the drivers to it yourself saves you having to pay dell for a cd.

    The drivers can be downloaded from the dell website.

    http://unattended.msfn.org/

    I created a cd for my laptop dell inspirion 510M works perfect. ( snapped the driver cd by accident)


  • #5
    roamer
    Closed Accounts Posts: 299 ✭✭roamer


    Mac daddy wrote:
    Can you not just create a unattended installation and add the drivers to it yourself saves you having to pay dell for a cd.

    The drivers can be downloaded from the dell website.

    http://unattended.msfn.org/

    I created a cd for my laptop dell inspirion 510M works perfect. ( snapped the driver cd by accident)

    You don't have to pay for the cd. AFAIK they use next day delivery aswell.


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