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What CD's did your Dell come with? Restore CD?

post #1 of 10
2/23/05 at 12:30am
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I only got Sonic, Word Perfect, and Cyberlink PowerDVD, XP reinstall, and AOL. Am I missing anything? I know I didn't order anything else. It seems like I'm missing the restore cd. My HP and Compaq came with a recovery cd that will reformat and put everything back to it's orginal state like the day I first turned on the pc. It has all the programs that came with the pc already on there....usually it's three to four cds. Does Dell come with that? What happens if my laptop crashes? I can only reinstall the XP program and everything that was orginally on the laptop is gone?
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post #2 of 10
2/23/05 at 12:35am
It will come with a XP reinstallation disk. You can recover your computer just using the hidden partition dell created in the harddrive.
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post #3 of 10
2/23/05 at 12:55am
you might as well just reinstall windows and get all of that junk off....start off nice and clean
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post #4 of 10
2/23/05 at 1:23am
KISS and Celine Dion cd's came with mine for some reason...bastards...i think i'd have prefered the aol disc.
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post #5 of 10
2/23/05 at 1:39am
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Originally Posted by laffingbilly
KISS and Celine Dion cd's came with mine for some reason...bastards...i think i'd have prefered the aol disc.

I think I rather listen to KISS and Celine and than go through AOL. Anyway, I not a "computer geek" so looking for drives and udating and what not is not easy for me. I'm not there yet in terms of computer knowledge. I just find it easier for me to have total reinstall with everything on there already than go through it one step at a time. I thought Dell came with one, but I guess it's just the XP one.
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post #6 of 10
2/23/05 at 2:53am
mine didn't come with the dell resource cd, however when i reformatted i deleted all the extra partitions and got a cd from dell next day shipping after i complained
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post #7 of 10
2/23/05 at 7:17pm
Mine came with a 'green' disc that had the SP2 in it, with the SP2 already installed. I uninstalled thw SP2 and used the purple disc to put be back on SP1. The Inspiron 8600 was made in December of 2004, shipped to me last week, as a replacement for computer that damaged my eye and right toe.
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post #8 of 10
2/23/05 at 9:35pm
SonicNow, CyberDVD, and Windows XP Home with SP2..

Formatted that damned XP home and installed XP Pro SP2
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post #9 of 10
2/24/05 at 6:36am
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Looks like I don't need that total reinstall cd(s) afterall. When I put in the new hard drive, it automatically reinstalled everything that was originally on the the first hard drive...with all the preinstalled junk. Are the software's in the laptop so that's why it automatically reinstalled everything to the new blank hard drive? WIERD.
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post #10 of 10
2/24/05 at 10:33am

Adding more information on adstech link & icos-tech

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Originally Posted by Kakarot
SonicNow, CyberDVD, and Windows XP Home with SP2..
Formatted that damned XP home and installed XP Pro SP2
I have the same disc with sp2 in green, the sonic which all the buyers of the DVD+6500A get. I don't use the DVD+R i use the Pioneer DVR-S806 with 16 x 4.7GB and 4x DL 8.5GB. Video capture is done by my ADS "PYRO" A/V Link found at www.adstech.com when on go to top click products then A/V Link w/elements, for unlike others it has *component* input and both are connected to my 8600 thorugh 1294 firewire, but right after the Pioneer I have those de-flagging goodies from the UK www.icos-tech.com 'filters' (MacroMaster 2 and The Stripemaster) when on you'll see the Macromaster 2 'after' scrolling down past the just +, the you'll see the Stripmaster put your cursor on the stripemaster click and see what capabilites it has, which take care of all of of CP the 'disc' carries. I only use DVD 6500A for discs without any protection to back up with the NEC 6500A on puter, like the discs my local Public TV station puts out.
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