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In plain English - how do you wipe these Dell partitions and restorepoints!?
Tom, Rebecca is another person who does not seem to have used a DELL system! hth Tom Scales wrote: "Rebecca" wrote in message ... Bob Levine wrote: The Dell OEM CDs are effectively the same as any retail CD with possibly some Dell drivers and installation info so that it doesn't need to be activated. Well, not quite. Dell has two types of Dell-branded 'generic' XP CDs: One will not install on anything except a Dell PC, the other installs on any PC. Both need to be activated, neither has any special drivers that any other OEM XP CD has. Dell also makes Recovery XP CDs that don't require activation and have special Dell stuff on them, but those CDs aren't even close to "the same as any retail CD". Rebecca, Sorry, but absolutely none of this is correct. Dell has ONE kind of XP CD, which is a standard XP CD with Dell drivers slipstreamed. It is BIOS locked and does NOT require activation on a Dell, but will if used as a OEM CD for another brand. Dell does not have ANY Restore CDs that include the applications. Tom |
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In plain English - how do you wipe these Dell partitions and restore points!?
Tom Scales wrote:
"Rebecca" wrote in message ... Bob Levine wrote: The Dell OEM CDs are effectively the same as any retail CD with possibly some Dell drivers and installation info so that it doesn't need to be activated. Well, not quite. Dell has two types of Dell-branded 'generic' XP CDs: One will not install on anything except a Dell PC, the other installs on any PC. Both need to be activated, neither has any special drivers that any other OEM XP CD has. Dell also makes Recovery XP CDs that don't require activation and have special Dell stuff on them, but those CDs aren't even close to "the same as any retail CD". Rebecca, Sorry, but absolutely none of this is correct. Dell has ONE kind of XP CD, which is a standard XP CD with Dell drivers slipstreamed. It is BIOS locked and does NOT require activation on a Dell, but will if used as a OEM CD for another brand. Do some research. What Rebecca wrote is correct. |
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In plain English - how do you wipe these Dell partitions andrestore points!?
Rebecca wrote:
Tom Scales wrote: "Rebecca" wrote in message ... Bob Levine wrote: The Dell OEM CDs are effectively the same as any retail CD with possibly some Dell drivers and installation info so that it doesn't need to be activated. Well, not quite. Dell has two types of Dell-branded 'generic' XP CDs: One will not install on anything except a Dell PC, the other installs on any PC. Both need to be activated, neither has any special drivers that any other OEM XP CD has. Dell also makes Recovery XP CDs that don't require activation and have special Dell stuff on them, but those CDs aren't even close to "the same as any retail CD". Rebecca, Sorry, but absolutely none of this is correct. Dell has ONE kind of XP CD, which is a standard XP CD with Dell drivers slipstreamed. It is BIOS locked and does NOT require activation on a Dell, but will if used as a OEM CD for another brand. ****ing incredible! Where do you get your information? Don't get it there, it's wrong. Well, I tried to be civil in my other post by I can now see that that was waste of bandwidth. The fact is, I could ask you same question....where do you get your information. I can't count how many Dells I worked on for friends and clients and I've done clean installs on every one of them with a Dell supplied or burned CD. There's no activation required and I've used those same CDs to do clean installs on HPs and Gateways. After the activation prompt, I use the CD key on the sticker of the case and it activates everytime. If you're in the USA you don't know what the hell you're talking about and if you're in another country and do know what you're talking about then Dell is doing things drastically different in other countries. Bob |
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In plain English - how do you wipe these Dell partitions andrestore points!?
Damian wrote:
Tom Scales wrote: "Rebecca" wrote in message ... Bob Levine wrote: The Dell OEM CDs are effectively the same as any retail CD with possibly some Dell drivers and installation info so that it doesn't need to be activated. Well, not quite. Dell has two types of Dell-branded 'generic' XP CDs: One will not install on anything except a Dell PC, the other installs on any PC. Both need to be activated, neither has any special drivers that any other OEM XP CD has. Dell also makes Recovery XP CDs that don't require activation and have special Dell stuff on them, but those CDs aren't even close to "the same as any retail CD". Rebecca, Sorry, but absolutely none of this is correct. Dell has ONE kind of XP CD, which is a standard XP CD with Dell drivers slipstreamed. It is BIOS locked and does NOT require activation on a Dell, but will if used as a OEM CD for another brand. Do some research. What Rebecca wrote is correct. I don't need any research. I've lived it and what she wrote is total crap. Bob |
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In plain English - how do you wipe these Dell partitions and restore points!?
ANONYMOUS wrote:
Tom, Rebecca is another person who does not seem to have used a DELL system! What Dell ships with each PC may be different than what she wrote, but it doesn't change that what she wrote is correct. hth Tom Scales wrote: "Rebecca" wrote in message ... Bob Levine wrote: The Dell OEM CDs are effectively the same as any retail CD with possibly some Dell drivers and installation info so that it doesn't need to be activated. Well, not quite. Dell has two types of Dell-branded 'generic' XP CDs: One will not install on anything except a Dell PC, the other installs on any PC. Both need to be activated, neither has any special drivers that any other OEM XP CD has. Dell also makes Recovery XP CDs that don't require activation and have special Dell stuff on them, but those CDs aren't even close to "the same as any retail CD". Rebecca, Sorry, but absolutely none of this is correct. Dell has ONE kind of XP CD, which is a standard XP CD with Dell drivers slipstreamed. It is BIOS locked and does NOT require activation on a Dell, but will if used as a OEM CD for another brand. Dell does not have ANY Restore CDs that include the applications. Tom |
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In plain English - how do you wipe these Dell partitions and restore points!?
Bob Levine wrote:
Damian wrote: Tom Scales wrote: "Rebecca" wrote in message ... Bob Levine wrote: The Dell OEM CDs are effectively the same as any retail CD with possibly some Dell drivers and installation info so that it doesn't need to be activated. Well, not quite. Dell has two types of Dell-branded 'generic' XP CDs: One will not install on anything except a Dell PC, the other installs on any PC. Both need to be activated, neither has any special drivers that any other OEM XP CD has. Dell also makes Recovery XP CDs that don't require activation and have special Dell stuff on them, but those CDs aren't even close to "the same as any retail CD". Rebecca, Sorry, but absolutely none of this is correct. Dell has ONE kind of XP CD, which is a standard XP CD with Dell drivers slipstreamed. It is BIOS locked and does NOT require activation on a Dell, but will if used as a OEM CD for another brand. Do some research. What Rebecca wrote is correct. I don't need any research. I've lived it and what she wrote is total crap. Dell doesn't supply everything they make with each PC. Dell does make what she wrote! |
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In plain English - how do you wipe these Dell partitions and restorepoints!?
Damian wrote: Dell doesn't supply everything they make with each PC. Dell does make what she wrote! Dell supplies everything it makes at a price! The CDs are optional extras. For example look at this site: http://configure.euro.dell.com/dells...rsdimen_3100_2 Try to configure a system and you will get an option to buy the backup CDs for OS and Drivers. system Restore CDs are free and includes symantecs utility to restore the system. hth |
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In plain English - how do you wipe these Dell partitions and restore points!?
On Sun, 20 Aug 2006 12:04:44 -0500, "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. No, NO, NOOOO! If you install Windows from a Dell CD labelled Windows XP Home or Professional, you do NOT install all the stuff you were trying to avoid. It is a Windows installation CD, plain and simple, differing in only the tiniest details from any other OEM or even retail Windows install CD. Then you install the drivers from the drivers CD, starting with the motheboard chipset drivers. Well, here is where you get the tiniest amount of Dell-specific software, a few MB of menus and other stuff that make it easier to get support or download the latest drivers from Dell. Where do you people get these ideas???? ... Ben Myers |
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In plain English - how do you wipe these Dell partitions and restore points!?
You can't be serious! I service Dell boxes a lot. I install new ones for the
technically challenged buyers. I reload the OS when the hard disk is toast and needs to be replaced. I have NEVER seen a Dell restore CD. I have used and will continue to use the CDs supplied by Dell (now for a price) containing a copy of Windows XP (Home or Pro) and the driver CD. Get your facts 100% right or even just 99.9% when cross-posting to a Dell newsgroup! ... Ben Myers On Sun, 20 Aug 2006 14:47:09 -0700, "Damian" wrote: Tom Scales wrote: "Rebecca" wrote in message ... Bob Levine wrote: The Dell OEM CDs are effectively the same as any retail CD with possibly some Dell drivers and installation info so that it doesn't need to be activated. Well, not quite. Dell has two types of Dell-branded 'generic' XP CDs: One will not install on anything except a Dell PC, the other installs on any PC. Both need to be activated, neither has any special drivers that any other OEM XP CD has. Dell also makes Recovery XP CDs that don't require activation and have special Dell stuff on them, but those CDs aren't even close to "the same as any retail CD". Rebecca, Sorry, but absolutely none of this is correct. Dell has ONE kind of XP CD, which is a standard XP CD with Dell drivers slipstreamed. It is BIOS locked and does NOT require activation on a Dell, but will if used as a OEM CD for another brand. Do some research. What Rebecca wrote is correct. |
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In plain English - how do you wipe these Dell partitions andrestore points!?
ANONYMOUS wrote:
Damian wrote: Dell doesn't supply everything they make with each PC. Dell does make what she wrote! Dell supplies everything it makes at a price! The CDs are optional extras. For example look at this site: http://configure.euro.dell.com/dells...rsdimen_3100_2 Try to configure a system and you will get an option to buy the backup CDs for OS and Drivers. system Restore CDs are free and includes symantecs utility to restore the system. The restore utility at least not in the US is not on a CD. It's a hidden partition on the harddrive that will restore the system exactly the way it was out of the box. Bob |
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