I bought one off of eBay (I'm sure from one of you ) and failed to notice deep down in the fine print it was PINK! Now, being in the Army for 13 years, can't have that Anyway, I formatted the HD and put XP on it. Now my wife doesn't want it anymore and I want to reinstall vista home premium and put it back to factory for my coworker that is buying it. Any suggestions?
NukeMedDude said: I bought one off of eBay (I'm sure from one of you ) and failed to notice deep down in the fine print it was PINK! Now, being in the Army for 13 years, can't have that Anyway, I formatted the HD and put XP on it. Now my wife doesn't want it anymore and I want to reinstall vista home premium and put it back to factory for my coworker that is buying it. Any suggestions?
You can burn your own DVD's, 3 I think as restore disks. And there is a partition on the HD to do the same restore.
Yeah, problem is I by accident wiped the partition with the tools. I have all the original DVD's for restore. Problem is I can't find a way to do a factory restore with it.
If you have the disks, just wipe the drive and install Vista, any required drivers, and all the security patches. Then just include the apps disk(s) in case the person wants to install any of the bundled software.
andeguy
Senior Member
posted: Oct. 30, 2009 @ 6:28a
Dell provides recovery partition for full system restore, but on CDs they only give you the actual OS with software and drivers on separate cds. Therefore, you are looking for windows vista home premium disk form which you have to boot. The rest should be easy for you if you did XP yourself already. Once it's done and booted, just install drivers and necessary software. P.S. It is always the best to download fresh drivers from support.Dell.com
Other than buying the Recovery CD's from Dell? (I think $25).
Not much that is still 'legal'. BTW Most Dells can use the same recovery CD. It's the driver CD (which is downloadable) which makes them all different.
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