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Upgrade XP-Home to XP-Pro on Inspiron 1100
Michelle W mjwid...@hotmail.com microsoft public windowsxp hardware I'ma consultant and have a client who installed XP Home edition on his Dell Inspiron laptop. Since his system was having alot of problems, I offered to do a clean install, (not MS's clean install method, but a format and reload).

Dell Inspiron 8000, Mobility M4, DRI performance
I've been using Me since July on my Inspiron 4000. I've had to reformat once when I really mucked the machine up and ZZTOP didn't work. My system is still not the most stable of systems. I've got the XP Home upgrade from Dell last weekend and wonder if it's better to reformat and do a complete clean install or roll

Linux on Dell Inspiron 3000?
Thanks and good luck, Frank Vega Systems Analyst/Programmer - MCP VISS, Inc. -----Original Message----- I just recently installed Win2K (clean install, not an upgrade) on a Dell Inspiron 3500, Intel Celeron Processor, 128MB, 8GB HDD, BIOS vA14. It was running Win98SE. While I was performing the installation,

Need help w/ Mandrake 9.1 on Dell Inspiron 5000
Is this an upgrade or a clean install? What graphics card or chip is currently installed? Cari www.coribright.com "John D. Leonard" <sage...@adelphia.net> wrote in message news:eu6nXQ6dCHA.2060@tkmsftngp09... 233 Mhz, plenty of memory and hard drive space. Keeps shutting down in the middle of the install.

Upgrade from XP Home to XP Pro Hangs
Cari \(MS-MVP WindowsXP\) Newsgro...@coribright.com microsoft public windowsxp help_and_support Is this an upgrade or a clean install? What graphics card or chip is currently installed? Cari www.coribright.com "John D. Leonard" <sage...@adelphia.net> wrote in message news:eu6nXQ6dCHA.2060@tkmsftngp09.

Inspiron 8200 - XP full disk provided?
Hello, I have been trying to track down my innards to check for any problems with a clean Win2000 install. I thought a more direct route to an answer would be here. I have an almost 3 year old Dell Inspiron 7000, Intel PIII 300 MHz, Ultra ATA HHD,256 ram,8 meg ATI Rage Pro video with 2X AGP,24 x CDROM, and internal

Upgrading from Windows ME to XP-Home
I would try a clean install. To do this, rename the "Windows" and "Program Files" folders so they're out of the way of Setup. You can do this from DOS, I went to Dell to download the driver updates, there were 4 bios, but the previous owner of the laptop, Dell Inspiron 7000, password protected the bios access.

Need help w/ Mandrake 9.1 on Dell Inspiron 5000
Circuit Breaker /dev/n...@127.0.0.1 alt os linux mandrake On Sun, 06 Jul 2003 23:08:45 +0000, dym wrote: I had running on a Dell Inspiron 5000 Mandrake 8.1, Before I could investigate it fully, a clean install was performed. This went fine except for the modem. Yes, I realize it is a winmodem, however it was

assigning free hard drive space
In article <938per$p1...@nnrp1.deja.com>, Bill <buen...@my-deja.com> wrote: I am prepared to buy a souped up Inspiron 8000 from Dell. It comes preinstalled with Windows 2000. (I am going to go with Insprion versus the Latitude - not sure why there is a big difference in price). 1. I would like to do a clean install

Dell Inspiron 7500 and Win2K install help.
JD Suggs sug...@spawar.navy.mil microsoft public win2000 general urchased an IBM 18 GB hard drive for my Dell Inspiron 7000 laptop. I have attempted to do a clean install using Windows 2000 Professional. Setup allows me to perform all steps upto starting windows 2000. At this point my laptop displays the blue

System Restore did not install
Bob Levine robjlevin.nos...@netscape.net alt sys pc-clone dell S.Lewis wrote: No, my main curiosity was the fact that the WinXP Pro (retail) disc didn't appear to offer an upgrade install versus a clean install - since it didn't detect WinMe on the disk. Interesting, but to be honest, I never tried to upgrade an

Clean install XP on Dell laptop
(make sure you have a boot up disk with cdrom drivers, or if your computer can, just boot from the cdrom) a clean install should definitely give you a noticeable speed increase especially if its been more than 2 or 3 months and you're a busy worker. good luck. "G Doerr" <fulloff...@home.com> wrote in message

Install problem - WordPerfect Office 2002 standard edition
Papa bikin...@my.fun microsoft public windowsxp basics Hello again: Rick, I decided to do a clean install (remove the existing partition, create a new partition, I just attempted to upgrade my grandson's Dell Inspiron 8200 from XP Home to XP Pro. At the 13 minutes remaining point, the following error appeared:

Dell Inspiron 7000 laptop
14" viewable screen, 266 mghz PII processor, 128 mb RAM upgraded, 4.1 G hard drive. Must sell to buy desktop. Lots of software with it - laptop dealer has offered $700 sight unseen. I'll personally take it to Dell Factory Outlet in Austin and get it a clean bill of health and a clean install before sale.

Linux on Dell Inspiron 3000?
rfasani rickfas...@hotmail.com microsoft public win2000 setup I am attempting a clean win2k install on a Dell Inspiron 2100 laptop... and hanging on "setup is starting Windows 2000". (A problem many seem to have.) (Note that I also tried booting from a winXP CD and had the same hang.) The system is a standard setup

Stop Error 0xa on Dell Inspiron 8K
bsma1 bs...@hotmail.com microsoft public windowsxp help_and_support I continue to get a random blue screen of death on my Dell Inspiron 8000 under Windows XP Pro. I have done the following: clean install of XP, newest drivers and BIOS from Dell, and install of all updates from Microsoft.

Problem install XP home on Dell Inspiron 7000
I have the same notebook and I get UXGA using the standard-non-accelerated nv-driver for xfree86. System is a clean install of SuSE 8.0. Maybe this helps... Could you post your XF86Config file (in /etc/X11) and the bit from /var/log/XFree86.0.log where it determines which resolutions are valid? TIA, Charles.

Windows ME on Dell laptop Inspiron 8000 bought 2002
Haven't done a clean install in a while, and I know there is a lot of garbage floating around the hard drive. In addition to my personal files, I've gathered the following Dell Inspiron specific files in preparation for the upgrade: i7-A15: Inspiron 7000 vA15 FlashBIOS 98aud290: Dell Inspiron 7000 Audio drivers

Inspiron 8100 modem not recognized by the system
John timberline2...@msn.com microsoft public windowsxp general Does anyone know a few good websites with DETAILED step by step instructions for doing a clean install on Windows XP. I have had some performance problems with the upgrade and wondered if a clean install would resolve these. I have a DELL Inspiron and

Upgrade XP-Home to XP-Pro on Inspiron 1100
I installed 8.1 again with no problem and updated the packages...but still want a clean install of 8.2...is there a way of correcting the 1024 barrier in the windows part and how? or can i make a 8.2 disk with the 8.1 bootloader ...rip and replace..would that work? Kevin Fleming <kflem...@accesswave.ca> wrote in