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post #1 of 11
11/3/04 at 3:12am
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I was recently setting up a friend's new Gateway and noticed that there was no Windows disk with the system. She told me that Gateway now expects you to make your own recovery disk from the hard drive.

Does Dell do this as well? Wouldn't this mean that, unless I bought a new copy of Windows, there is no way to reformat and do a fresh install without all Dell's preloaded software?

Thanks a bunch,
S.
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post #2 of 11
11/3/04 at 3:58am
hi yuccamoth,

this is interesting. i received my gateway laptop in June and it came with the Windows XP CD. It came with a few other disks also, but to be honest, I didn't look at them, so I don't know what they are.

indera

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Originally Posted by yuccamoth
I was recently setting up a friend's new Gateway and noticed that there was no Windows disk with the system. She told me that Gateway now expects you to make your own recovery disk from the hard drive.

Does Dell do this as well? Wouldn't this mean that, unless I bought a new copy of Windows, there is no way to reformat and do a fresh install without all Dell's preloaded software?

Thanks a bunch,
S.
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post #3 of 11
11/3/04 at 4:02am
yeah sony started doing the same thing several months back....pretty stupid idea i think, bc if u don't save the stuff to disk and forget and need the disks they send them to u anyways. and no dell does not do this, they have disks for everything thats on ur computer
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post #4 of 11
11/3/04 at 4:11am
Dell includes a full copy of the operating system in addition to a recovery partition on the hard drive.
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post #5 of 11
11/3/04 at 12:29pm
Dell also has dropped the paper manual instead they want you to look it up and save or print the bloody thing.
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post #6 of 11
11/3/04 at 12:36pm
Gateway dropped the paper manual on my M505 too.
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post #7 of 11
11/3/04 at 4:42pm
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Originally Posted by chazzy
Dell also has dropped the paper manual instead they want you to look it up and save or print the bloody thing.
All (4) of my 700m's have a large 126 page owner's manual.

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post #8 of 11
11/3/04 at 4:53pm
My XPS that I received 5 days ago have the printed owner's manuals too.
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post #9 of 11
11/3/04 at 5:53pm
I got the paper manual along with the 600m which I received last Tue.
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post #10 of 11
11/3/04 at 6:48pm
I got the 8600 and also received the printed manuals.
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post #11 of 11
11/3/04 at 7:21pm
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Originally Posted by yuccamoth
I was recently setting up a friend's new Gateway and noticed that there was no Windows disk with the system. She told me that Gateway now expects you to make your own recovery disk from the hard drive.

Does Dell do this as well? Wouldn't this mean that, unless I bought a new copy of Windows, there is no way to reformat and do a fresh install without all Dell's preloaded software?

Thanks a bunch,
S.
dell also includes all the drivers or you can download the latest one from dell support website.
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