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- I have a 1501 I purchased in November, it has TL-50, 2 gigs of ram. I it's working fine, had some minor problems, ok now. I received my Vista Home Premium upgrade a month ago, installed Vista on a dual boot. Vista worked slow at first, but speeded up after about 4 or 5 days. Go figure?
- I didn't know that, but did discover that my restore does not work. I thought that maybe I did something to damage it. This is what I did. Using Partition Magic, made a new partition from Windows XP partition, made it 45 gb smaller. With that new Partition I installed Vista. Vista, XP, and the Dell Diagnostics works fine. The restore does not work it just boots into Windows when I press Ctrl F11. The restore partition is still there, it just does not work. I read possible ways to repair, but it's too complicated. I don't think I could ever do fix it even if it's possible.
- I just bought this one with Vista preinstalled. I also have an e1505 that came with XP Media Center in February and I recieved the upgrade disk kit about a month later. The upgrade was great but it did disable the Dell Symantic Quick Restore on my hard drive. I had to run the Goodell Quick Restore ISO image file to re enable the program.Dell features the quick restore function with computers with Vista preinstalled but not on computers with the upgrade program. All we have is the Dell Symantic Quick Restore that came with xp. Vista disables the quick restore.Inspiron E1505 T5500 Core 2 Duo
2gb 667 mhz 5400 DD2
Intel 950 Graphics
Windows XP Media Center 2005 - Express Vista Home Premium Upgrade - Its not complicated. You just go to the goodell site and scroll down to the ISO part and skip the rest. Download the Iso file and burn it to cd.Boot the computer to cd and do 2 or 3 comands and its fixed. I have the comands and they are typed in at the prompt...Type CD\MD2 click enterType repair click enterClick OKDone.... restart the computer and press ctrl + F11 key...in ten minutes your computer is restored to factory specs...heres the link...go download the iso file...Inspiron E1505 T5500 Core 2 Duo
2gb 667 mhz 5400 DD2
Intel 950 Graphics
Windows XP Media Center 2005 - Express Vista Home Premium Upgrade austinjreid
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Posted April 5th, 2007 06:00
I bought a 1501 (with TL-52 and 1GB) in Nov06, very happy with it now. On first booting I wiped the entire drive and reinstalled MCE, runs sweet now. No issues found at all. Well, ok, only issue is waiting for dell to ship my Vista Upgrade! Its a !£$£" that they've upped the HDD to 120, mine came with 80 standard.
Message Edited by austinjreid on 04-05-2007 02:25 AM- Your still waiting for your Vista Upgrade Kit? I got mine in a month. The 1501 I just bought for a friend has Vista installed but I have e1505. I am going to be able to tweek the difference between customers that bought the upgrade program and customers that got Vista preinstalled. Lucky me! I actually think the upgrade customers got the better deal. They get both systems..XP and Vista.
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Posted April 5th, 2007 01:00
Message Edited by Krimbo on 04-06-2007 09:04 PM