Inspiron 6000: moving from Winxp Home to Pro....driver que..

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sherry <your_prince20@hotmail.com> wrote:
: Hi,

: I'm gonna format HD and install Winxp-Pro (current Winxp-Home). Just
: curious, if anyone has done this & they had any trouble with finding
: all the program/drivers that're pre-installed. The only site I could
: find was this Dell
: http://support.dell.com/support/do [...] WW1&osl=EN
: But wondering if all these things are availabe on one cd from some
: where.

: BTW, the system didn't come w/ any CD.

Cafeful - are you sure there isn't a hidden recover partition on it?
If so, you will not want to erase that partition! Or did you buy the
computer used? In that case, it may have come with a recover CD plus
additional CDs with drivers on them. I wiped a couple of Dell
desktops for someone a few months ago - these were only about two
years old - and they had numerous application/driver CDs in addition
to the single recover CD. I did need the driver CD, although I think
you can get all the drivers you need from Dell's website.

Andrew
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Archived from groups: comp.sys.laptops (More info?)

I have an Inspiron 9300 and it did not come with any cd's. There were
instructions on how to create an OS cd. I followed the instructions and it
didn't work. I sent an e-mail to tech support and they sent me 3
cd's..........OS, Drivers, Other programs. I sent e-mail on Saturday and
received the cd's on Tuesday.

"sherry" <your_prince20@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:1122436397.028484.214030@o13g2000cwo.googlegroups.com...
> Hi,
>
> I'm gonna format HD and install Winxp-Pro (current Winxp-Home). Just
> curious, if anyone has done this & they had any trouble with finding
> all the program/drivers that're pre-installed. The only site I could
> find was this Dell
> http://support.dell.com/support/do [...] WW1&osl=EN
> But wondering if all these things are availabe on one cd from some
> where.
>
> BTW, the system didn't come w/ any CD.
>
> Thanx,
> Latez.
>