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I'm considering an 8400, and likely to go with an Outrageous Deal
or refurb. I have XP Pro media and licenses, and could save a few
bucks if I purchased a system with Home and then installed Pro. So
I'm contemplating a clean install of Pro and the potential issues.
Whatever I order will have a DVD-ROM and possibly a dual layer
DVD burner. There is some application software that goes with that...
Sonic Record Now, Power DVD, whatever. I'm wondering if there is
a way to get those installed on top of Pro. Does Dell ship those CDs
or provide them upon request? Is there some mechanism via which
specific apps can be [re]installed from the recovery partition?
Speaking of partitions, I'm trying to remember what I saw on that
4700 I played with. IIRC there was a small EISA partition, then
NTFS, then the recovery partition. A quick google suggests the
EISA partition holds the Dell diagnostics, which I suppose might be
nice to keep around. Would I have to do anything special in order
to retain the ability to run diagnostics?
Thanks in advance.
I'm considering an 8400, and likely to go with an Outrageous Deal
or refurb. I have XP Pro media and licenses, and could save a few
bucks if I purchased a system with Home and then installed Pro. So
I'm contemplating a clean install of Pro and the potential issues.
Whatever I order will have a DVD-ROM and possibly a dual layer
DVD burner. There is some application software that goes with that...
Sonic Record Now, Power DVD, whatever. I'm wondering if there is
a way to get those installed on top of Pro. Does Dell ship those CDs
or provide them upon request? Is there some mechanism via which
specific apps can be [re]installed from the recovery partition?
Speaking of partitions, I'm trying to remember what I saw on that
4700 I played with. IIRC there was a small EISA partition, then
NTFS, then the recovery partition. A quick google suggests the
EISA partition holds the Dell diagnostics, which I suppose might be
nice to keep around. Would I have to do anything special in order
to retain the ability to run diagnostics?
Thanks in advance.