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reinstalling windows?
ok i've had to reinstall my windows earlier this week and then i was just told that i neeed to reconfigure my hard drive. i have an inspiron 8600 and do not have the dell pc system restore option. so when i go to reinstall windows it asks me which partition i want to install it on. what am i supposed to do from there?
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Posted December 8th, 2005 18:00
This is a great guide for reinstalling on a Dell: http://www.djdenham.com/Install%20Procedures.htm212
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Posted December 8th, 2005 19:00
they told me i had to reconfigure the hard drive bc after about half a day of being connected to the network it stopped responding and i can no longer connect to it212
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Posted December 8th, 2005 19:00
ur2funny,
Why were you told that you had to reconfigure your hard drive? What was wrong after you reinstalled XP?
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Posted December 8th, 2005 19:00
is this what i have to do?- go to the install screen, delete partition c, recreate partion c, and select that to install windows on. then use the other dell disks to reinstall everything else?212
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Posted December 8th, 2005 19:00
ok thanks that's what i'm going to do then212
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Posted December 8th, 2005 19:00
ur2funny,
Yes, the C:\ partition should include most of your hard disk. There will be two other partitions, the ~35MB partition with Dell diagnostics and the 3-5GB partition withe PC Restore image on it. After XP is installed, install the chipset drivers first followed by the others in any order.
thehoofbite
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Posted December 8th, 2005 18:00