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    1500 - Full reformat?

    Discussion in 'Dell' started by sequence123, Aug 21, 2007.

  1. sequence123

    sequence123 Notebook Enthusiast

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    Hi, my Vostro 1500 has been shipped and is due to come this week.

    I understand it comes with a Vista Business disc, is this disc bootable?

    Is it a good idea to boot off it and reformat the whole disc (wiping the recovery partitiion as well) and then installing Vista?
     
    sequence123, Aug 21, 2007
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    ocellaris Notebook Evangelist

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    Presuming you deselected all of the extra software when you ordered, your system will arrive with no crap on it. My V1400 had two desktop icons when I first turned it on, and almost nothing in the Start Menu.
     
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    grateful Notebook Evangelist

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    it depends how much crap you told them to preinstall, usually it doesnt matter I specifically make sure they didnt on my last laptop. But if you didnt specify then yes it is an easier solution to just format once you get it.
     
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    IceMole Notebook Consultant

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    Yes vista is bootable, I did a format last night. Pop the cd in, reboot and hit F12, choose CD/DVD, and press any key. It finished in about 10min, and I went to dell.com to find the latest drivers. Installed chipset, touchpad, and video drivers I got from laptopvideo2go.com.
     
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    sequence123 Notebook Enthusiast

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    Oh ok thanks.

    I ordered from the UK website and never saw anything about them installing extra software.
     
    sequence123, Aug 21, 2007
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