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Windows recovery disk questions

Just bought a new dell vostro laptop.  It has windows 7 but came with windows 8 recovery disk.  I'm going to keep windows 7.  If I ever have to replace my hard drive, can I use my windows 8 recovery...

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option to recover hard drive space when making recovery disc

I'm using DBAR on my vostro laptop to make a recovery disc and it asks me if I want to recover hard drive space.  It says "The application and drivers and utilities on your hard drive use 114mb of...

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Reinstalling my Dell Inspiron N5050 to factory settings

i have upgraded to Windows 10 and all my  personal configuration settings and files  were wiped out. in addition windows did not start up half of the time and i  decided to reinstall everything to the...

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Google on Windows 7

I have a dell d630. Windows 7 home premium.  How can I use Google as default browser and make everything work right.  Or is it even possible.  I'm a comp rookie.  Do I need an alienware ?

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Cannot read Windows Product Key, need to replace HDD on laptop

Hi,My Dell XPS laptop is out of warranty. I need to replace the HDD as it has been diagnosed as faulty.The laptop came with Windows 7 pre-installed and the product key sticker is worn and cannot be...

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Laptop keeps rebooting

My laptop keeps rebooting. I ran a full diagnostic test and everything was good. FYI I was trying to reset my laptop but it was taking forever to reset. After 12 hours it only at 38% so I turned it off...

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Laptop - Black Screen and won't load bios

I was trying to upgrade my gf's laptop (inspiron 7537) to Windows 10 yesterday and it hung up on installation. I left it overnight and was still hung up so I powered it down and restarted it. Now it...

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Dell Mini 10 1018 Factory Restore - user does not know how to use Dell utility

I was running Win 7 starter edition and decided to go with a clean factory image before upgrading to Windows 10. My mistake was thinking that the Dell recovery utility would work.I created an 8G...

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Need a System Recovery or OS reinstall DVD

I have had my XPS 7100 for 4 years and now would like to reinstall the existing Windows 7 from the factory defaults, like with a recovery DVD.  I purchased the system with Win 7 on it, but it didn't...

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(Redirected) trying to do a complete install windows 7 pro sp1 64 bit on my...

trying to do a complete install on my dell optiplex 760 tower,  but even though i have the original dell disc,  i am still having issues.....  I get all the features and everything done all the way to...

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reinstalling windows7 home basic

i had bought dell inspiron n5010 with genuine windows7 home basic.Recently my hard disk corupted so i replaced it and loading the windows through the CD i got.But its not working and i don't know the...

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code 80070490

hello I keep getting code 80070490 every time I try to reset my pc computer back to default settings . . . can you please help me on what I need to do ????? thanks  [:D]

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Partition order

I am not sure if this is the correct forum, but I do not see a more proper one for this, so I figured since the end goal includes a Microsoft OS, this is a good place to start. I am trying to...

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Error 0xC004C003 after Win10 clean install...

I did a clean install of Windows 10 on my Dell Latitude 3440 that was running Windows 8 and now it won't register.

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Change system language

Hi,When setting up my new laptop, the first action was to select the system language. I mistakenly picked French. I now need to change this back to English. I tried doing a factory restore, but when I...

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Serial-ATA_Driver_D60VM_WN_13.2.4.1000_A13 fails to install

Your driver package: Serial-ATA_Driver_D60VM_WN_13.2.4.1000_A13 fails to install and reports that I do not have .NET 4.5 and fails to install.  I have .NET 4.5 and .NET 4.6 installed:2015:10:06...

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A driver would not install

I'm trying to download a driver analysed by dell system detect thta need to be downloaded :But when I try to install it says does not meet system requirements when its is anaylysed and put on the...

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Can I use Dell factory image after upgrading from windows 8 to windows 10?

Hi all,After I upgrade my windows 8.1 to windows 10, I cannot find the Dell image factory reset option. However, I want to reset my windows by using the Dell factory reset image on the recovery...

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Removing Dell Protected Workspace

I unfortunately seem to have activate4d my years free subscription to this piece of software which is causing me problems. I wish to remove it but fear that simply uninstalling will prevent my...

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