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sons laptop is grinding to a slow down possibly due to crap hes accumulated over the past few years. Been scanned no malware or virus found.
How do I do a fresh install with no W7 disc? The drive is partitioned W7 on one other stuff on other?
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[url= http://techtips.salon.com/manually-access-dell-restore-partition-2648.html ]assumes you have a recovery partition.[/url]
If not I can probably find/post you a Dell Win 7 disc (no code), that I'm told will work with any dell code*.
I should be testing that theory at some point this weekend.
Is there no recovery partition? I thought Dell shipped all laptops with a Windows 7 installation image on the HD for this reason.
There will be a system in place to do a factory-fresh* re-install. Check the manufacturers web site and it should give step by step instructions.
* NOTE - not the same as a fresh install - the manufacturer almost certainly will have loaded bloatware on to the machine to start off with. CrapCleaner http://www.piriform.com/ will help you to identify what starts up automatically and stop it from doing so.
NOTE 2 - make sure that you have everything you need fully backed up before doing a re-install.
[i]NOTE 2 - make sure that you have everything you need fully backed up before doing a re-install. [/i]
This.
and then do another backup to a different set of media, just to be sure.
W7 code is on back of laptop, I've only done reinstall with xp disc. I have no disc this time.
use windows explorer - look at the recovery partition - there's normally an app or somethign you can run that'll manage the process for you.