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Originally Posted by Sassafrass
So I really don't do this kind of shit a lot, but Radez, I can tell you that if you call Dell with your SN on your tower, they WILL send you a CD with everything that came on your computer - including drivers and shit. (And all the other shit that came on it too. "Recovery CD" I think its called)
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That's very true. However, I'm under the impression that all it can do is to restore the system to the state in which it was shipped. It can't perform a
clean installation of Windows, as far as I know.
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And Dell loads their new PCs with a bunch of bullshit. It'd probably best best to do a clean install, but without a disc, unless you want to pull some illegal shit, it won't be easy.
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You're dead right, but I certainly didn't think these recovery CDs were capable of a clean install. Are you sure that they are?
I'm not criticizing your advice, but I thought you needed an original Windows CD to do a clean install, whereas the recovey CD was some crap cooked up by Dell, with all their shitty pre-installed bullshit on it.
Jam it back in, in the dark.
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