Reformating Vostro ... I had a virus on my vostro 1500 and now have no choice but to reinstsall the operating software and start from scratch. I only have two C ...

yosshimura · 12-30-2009, 06:32 AM

I had a virus on my vostro 1500 and now have no choice but to reinstsall the operating software and start from scratch. I only have two CD's that came with my 1500, which are labeled as follows:

Drivers and utilities already installed on your computer
Application already installed on your computer

....but in reading the instruction booklet it says to install "the operating system reinstallation CD" and I don't show having received this CD when I got my vostro 2 yrs ago..

Any ideas on how to reformat my laptop? Am I going to need to order that "operating system reinstallation cd"? If so, does dell charge for that?

thanks

qhn · 12-30-2009, 06:49 AM

Do you happen to still have the recovery partition on the hard drive?

cheers ...

MrEvil · 12-31-2009, 05:15 PM

You can contact Dell technical support and if you ask very nicely they usually always are able to overnight the OS disc to you. There are also other ways of obtaining Dell install media as well, but unfortunately it's a bit of a legally grey area.

12-30-2009, 06:32 AM	#1
yosshimura Registered User Join Date: Jul 2004 Posts: 7 Credits: -346	Reformating Vostro I had a virus on my vostro 1500 and now have no choice but to reinstsall the operating software and start from scratch. I only have two CD's that came with my 1500, which are labeled as follows: Drivers and utilities already installed on your computer Application already installed on your computer ....but in reading the instruction booklet it says to install "the operating system reinstallation CD" and I don't show having received this CD when I got my vostro 2 yrs ago.. Any ideas on how to reformat my laptop? Am I going to need to order that "operating system reinstallation cd"? If so, does dell charge for that? thanks

12-30-2009, 06:49 AM	#2
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12-31-2009, 05:15 PM	#3
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