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re: Cleaning Dell Notebook
Friday, April 27, 2007 at 6:17 am
Windows Me Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Larry
(1292 messages posted)
Laptops are filled with proprietary hardware for which you'll need to hunt down the
drivers. This can be a tedious process, even on the OEM's website. What I would do
is contact Dell and see if you can purchase a restore disk for that model. It will
have the OS plus all the drivers. They usually can be purchased fairly cheaply. Another
option is to search eBay. There are several vendors that have a wide selection of
restore disks. This asumes, of course, that your laptop has a Certificate of Authenticity
affixed to the bottom, then you can use that product key for the installation of
the restore disk if the install process asks for it. If you go this route it will
put the laptop in "out of the box" new condition. You can then delete any old trial
software, games, and other crap Dell put on the disk and then go to the Windows update
site to get about sixty updates. If you can't get a Dell restore disk you'll have
to acquire a full (not upgrade) Microsoft ME disk. Used on eBay is again a good place,
and make sure it comes with the product key. ME has excellent driver support, so
with luck you'll only have to track down a couple of drivers from Dell once you've
installed the OS. Good luck! ;-)
On Thursday, April 26, 2007 at 11:46 am, Amanda wrote:
>I recently purchased an older Dell Inspiron 2100 notebook (older, but cheap) and
>want to completely (but safely) wipe the hard drive and re-install WindowsME. Is
>there not a prompt that can be entered in Start>Run to completely wipe the hard
drive?
>(Something similar to Start>Run>msconfig)
- Written in response to:
- Cleaning Dell Notebook (Amanda: Thursday, April 26, 2007 at 11:46 am)
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