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Large Drive Support Dimension 4550
Bob Villa wrote:
snip (And Chris, 4550 has USB 2) good catch. |
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Large Drive Support Dimension 4550
-----Original Message----- From: Christopher Muto ] Posted At: Friday, February 12, 2010 2:23 PM Posted To: alt.sys.pc-clone.dell Conversation: Large Drive Support Dimension 4550 Subject: Large Drive Support Dimension 4550 Bob Villa wrote: snip (And Chris, 4550 has USB 2) good catch. You do need the latest BIOS. I believe the LBA support is native to the latest bios and would be willing to bet that any XP will work. That said, I'd spend a few bucks for a Dell XP SP2 disk. Slipstreaming will 'break' the Dell ability to not need activation. |
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Large Drive Support Dimension 4550
"Tom Scales" wrote in message
news:8D008CC0F7AD451182F7AF6D457C9E38@XPS13... -----Original Message----- From: Christopher Muto ] Posted At: Friday, February 12, 2010 2:23 PM Posted To: alt.sys.pc-clone.dell Conversation: Large Drive Support Dimension 4550 Subject: Large Drive Support Dimension 4550 Bob Villa wrote: snip (And Chris, 4550 has USB 2) good catch. You do need the latest BIOS. I believe the LBA support is native to the latest bios and would be willing to bet that any XP will work. That said, I'd spend a few bucks for a Dell XP SP2 disk. Slipstreaming will 'break' the Dell ability to not need activation. Thanks for the input Christopher. I had thought about slipstreaming, but will avoid it. I will look at ordering a current CD from Dell. No rush.. I can wait for the CD. C Chuck |
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Large Drive Support Dimension 4550
On 2/12/2010 9:44 PM, ChuckP wrote:
"Tom Scales" wrote in message news:8D008CC0F7AD451182F7AF6D457C9E38@XPS13... -----Original Message----- From: Christopher Muto ] Posted At: Friday, February 12, 2010 2:23 PM Posted To: alt.sys.pc-clone.dell Conversation: Large Drive Support Dimension 4550 Subject: Large Drive Support Dimension 4550 Bob Villa wrote: snip (And Chris, 4550 has USB 2) good catch. You do need the latest BIOS. I believe the LBA support is native to the latest bios and would be willing to bet that any XP will work. That said, I'd spend a few bucks for a Dell XP SP2 disk. Slipstreaming will 'break' the Dell ability to not need activation. Thanks for the input Christopher. I had thought about slipstreaming, but will avoid it. I will look at ordering a current CD from Dell. No rush.. I can wait for the CD. C Chuck Chuck, If your 4550 has an XP Pro sticker, you can get and you should get the Dell XP Pro "reinstallation" CD with Service Pack 3. I got one today from Dell along with a hard drive to replace a failed on in a client's Optiplex 330. Not sure if Dell ever produced SP3 CDs for XP Home. The only ones I've ever seen have SP2. But an SP3 CD may exist. It does not hurt to ask for SP3... Ben Myers |
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Large Drive Support Dimension 4550
Ben Myers wrote in -
september.org: Not sure if Dell ever produced SP3 CDs for XP Home. The only ones I've ever seen have SP2. But an SP3 CD may exist. Ben: FTR, I bought a couple Dell Minis with XP Home, and they included XP Home SP3 CDs, copyright 2009. Tom: I haven't experienced slipstreaming breaking the Dell ability to not need activation. Every December I've slipstreamed my installation CDs to bring them up to date with the year's hotfixes, including SP1 to SP2, and SP2 to SP3. They still do a clean install fine without requiring activation. I use the www.hfslip.org method instead of the more popular nLite, so I don't know if that makes a difference. |
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-----Original Message----- From: dg1261 ] Posted At: Saturday, February 13, 2010 8:47 PM Posted To: alt.sys.pc-clone.dell Conversation: Large Drive Support Dimension 4550 Subject: Large Drive Support Dimension 4550 Ben Myers wrote in - september.org: Not sure if Dell ever produced SP3 CDs for XP Home. The only ones I've ever seen have SP2. But an SP3 CD may exist. Ben: FTR, I bought a couple Dell Minis with XP Home, and they included XP Home SP3 CDs, copyright 2009. Tom: I haven't experienced slipstreaming breaking the Dell ability to not need activation. Every December I've slipstreamed my installation CDs to bring them up to date with the year's hotfixes, including SP1 to SP2, and SP2 to SP3. They still do a clean install fine without requiring activation. I use the www.hfslip.org method instead of the more popular nLite, so I don't know if that makes a difference. Good to know. I'll give it a try! |
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Large Drive Support Dimension 4550
HI!
They still do a clean install fine without requiring activation. *I use thewww.hfslip.orgmethod instead of the more popular nLite, so I don't know if that makes a difference. Good to know. *I'll give it a try! I can provide an additional data point by saying that nLite's method worked fine with two Dell Windows XP installation discs--one at SP0 and the other at SP1a. The preactivated state was not broken. William |
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Large Drive Support Dimension 4550
On Feb 15, 9:48*am, "William R. Walsh" wrote:
HI! They still do a clean install fine without requiring activation. *I use thewww.hfslip.orgmethodinstead of the more popular nLite, so I don't know if that makes a difference. Good to know. *I'll give it a try! I can provide an additional data point by saying that nLite's method worked fine with two Dell Windows XP installation discs--one at SP0 and the other at SP1a. The preactivated state was not broken. William nLite also worked for me with XP Home SP1. No activation needed. (That was my problem install I needed the SATA drivers merged into it.) bob |
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