In plain English - how do you wipe these Dell partitions and restore points!?

"Sparky Spartacus" wrote in message
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DatabaseBen wrote:
Yes, you have to understand that if you don't want nothin of the Dell
O.S. installed, then you need to get / buy a Window CD from the store.
If you use the Dell OEM Windows CD's, you will get all that stuff you are
trying to avoid.

If you mean "bloatware", not true. Once you finish the Windows Setup
you'll have a bare bones XP on your HDD - no antivirus, no Internet BS,
no Musicmatch, etc.

Ok lets kill this thread once and forall, for my sins i am a Dell warranty
repair engineer (yeah groan groan groan) any Cd that ships free of charge
or you purchase from Dell and it labeled Windows XP Home or Professional or
Media Centre Edition is a Full OEM copy of Windows and will install on any
Dell machine and will not need activation, it will also install on any other
brand of machine BUT WILL need activation.and will not install any
bloatware. IF you chose to create a "Restore CD" from the Dell partion on
your PC it will return your PC to exactly the state it came from out of the
factory with all the boatware.

People Like Tom and the others were correct and Rebecca (and your
supporters) are totally wrong

There is alot of experiance in the NG and the likes of Tom , Ben, Notan etc
do this to help people and what they say is usually 99.9% correct ( you can
all payme the $10 via paypal ) hehehehehe


So can we now draw aline under this.


Oh and by the way did we ever answer the OP question?

When you say it will return the pc to the exact state does that mean
ANYTHING i have installed previously to doing this restore will be totally
gone? Even stuff I downloaded but didn't yet install like game demos or
video clips etc..


"Fixer" wrote in message
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IF you chose to create a "Restore CD" from the Dell partion on
your PC it will return your PC to exactly the state it came from out of
the factory with all the boatware.

People Like Tom and the others were correct and Rebecca (and your
supporters) are totally wrong

There is alot of experiance in the NG and the likes of Tom , Ben, Notan
etc do this to help people and what they say is usually 99.9% correct (
you can all payme the $10 via paypal ) hehehehehe


So can we now draw aline under this.


Oh and by the way did we ever answer the OP question?

Anthony wrote:
When you say it will return the pc to the exact state does that mean
ANYTHING i have installed previously to doing this restore will be totally
gone? Even stuff I downloaded but didn't yet install like game demos or
video clips etc..

Yup, *everything* - your HDD will be as it was shipped from Dell
(although I don't know if the restore will undo any partitions you
defined post delivery).

Fixer wrote:

"Sparky Spartacus" wrote in message
...
DatabaseBen wrote:
Yes, you have to understand that if you don't want nothin of the Dell
O.S. installed, then you need to get / buy a Window CD from the store.
If you use the Dell OEM Windows CD's, you will get all that stuff you are
trying to avoid.

If you mean "bloatware", not true. Once you finish the Windows Setup
you'll have a bare bones XP on your HDD - no antivirus, no Internet BS,
no Musicmatch, etc.

Ok lets kill this thread once and forall, for my sins i am a Dell warranty
repair engineer (yeah groan groan groan) any Cd that ships free of charge
or you purchase from Dell and it labeled Windows XP Home or Professional or
Media Centre Edition is a Full OEM copy of Windows and will install on any
Dell machine and will not need activation, it will also install on any other
brand of machine BUT WILL need activation.and will not install any
bloatware. IF you chose to create a "Restore CD" from the Dell partion on
your PC it will return your PC to exactly the state it came from out of the
factory with all the boatware.

People Like Tom and the others were correct and Rebecca (and your
supporters) are totally wrong

There is alot of experiance in the NG and the likes of Tom , Ben, Notan etc
do this to help people and what they say is usually 99.9% correct ( you can
all payme the $10 via paypal ) hehehehehe

So can we now draw aline under this.

Thanks for including me. (Let's not forget Stew, that pussfaced little pimpstick g,
among others.)

I think I'm ready for a "Journey group hug!"

Notan

Is it possible to reinstall MediaDirect if you get a new hard disk?


"Sparky Spartacus" wrote in message
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Anthony wrote:
When you say it will return the pc to the exact state does that mean
ANYTHING i have installed previously to doing this restore will be
totally
gone? Even stuff I downloaded but didn't yet install like game demos or
video clips etc..

Yup, *everything* - your HDD will be as it was shipped from Dell
(although I don't know if the restore will undo any partitions you
defined post delivery).

Sparky Spartacus wrote:
Anthony wrote:
When you say it will return the pc to the exact state does that mean
ANYTHING i have installed previously to doing this restore will be
totally gone? Even stuff I downloaded but didn't yet install like
game demos or video clips etc..

Yup, *everything* - your HDD will be as it was shipped from Dell
(although I don't know if the restore will undo any partitions you
defined post delivery).

Now I know - Dell's recovery does not cream any partitions you defined
on the HDD (at least not on the XPS410).

So the partition I created for vista rc1 will not be touched HOWEVER I
probably will have a boot issue if I redid the original DELL install on my C
drive as it will wipe away the boot record that vista added correct?


"Sparky Spartacus" wrote in message
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Sparky Spartacus wrote:
Anthony wrote:
When you say it will return the pc to the exact state does that mean
ANYTHING i have installed previously to doing this restore will be
totally gone? Even stuff I downloaded but didn't yet install like game
demos or video clips etc..

Yup, *everything* - your HDD will be as it was shipped from Dell
(although I don't know if the restore will undo any partitions you
defined post delivery).

Now I know - Dell's recovery does not cream any partitions you defined on
the HDD (at least not on the XPS410).