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DoomGaze

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April 9th, 2005 15:00

New HDD

I want to put a larger HDD into my i5150, so I am wondering how do I set it up with the dell partitions for the diag software, thanks =D
  • jankerson

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    Posted April 9th, 2005 16:00



    @DoomGaze wrote:
    I want to put a larger HDD into my i5150, so I am wondering how do I set it up with the dell partitions for the diag software, thanks =D



    Well you can get Acronis True Image to copy the drive over.

    http://www.acronis.com/homecomputing/products/trueimage/

  • NemesisDB

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    Posted April 10th, 2005 03:00

    or, if you want something free, create a small Fat32 partition and install FreeDos to it.  Then install Windows XP in your seperate, main NTFS partition.  WinXP has a boot manager built in and will allow you to select which OS you want to start.  While in windows, simply drop the Dell Diagnostics software into the FreeDos partition (likely your E drive) and you'll be good to go.
     
    You won't be able to access the diagnostics from the dell boot screen, but this way works, is relatively easy to do, and is free ;-)
  • DoomGaze

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    Posted April 12th, 2005 15:00

    oh, so I dont need that partition? the only reason I asked was because I thought it needed it =D