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I'm working on a friend's Dell Latitude D610 (Windows XP Pro, SP2 is on
the machine and that is what the license is for). There is no installation disk for it handy as far as I know. If I need to perform a repair install (or a clean install for that matter), would I be able to use the Reinstallation CD that came with a Vostro 200? It is a Dell OEM CD for Windows XP Pro w/ SP2. |
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yea it should work
"Daave" wrote in message ... I'm working on a friend's Dell Latitude D610 (Windows XP Pro, SP2 is on the machine and that is what the license is for). There is no installation disk for it handy as far as I know. If I need to perform a repair install (or a clean install for that matter), would I be able to use the Reinstallation CD that came with a Vostro 200? It is a Dell OEM CD for Windows XP Pro w/ SP2. |
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Daave wrote:
I'm working on a friend's Dell Latitude D610 (Windows XP Pro, SP2 is on the machine and that is what the license is for). There is no installation disk for it handy as far as I know. If I need to perform a repair install (or a clean install for that matter), would I be able to use the Reinstallation CD that came with a Vostro 200? It is a Dell OEM CD for Windows XP Pro w/ SP2. Yes. Malke -- MS-MVP Elephant Boy Computers - Don't Panic! FAQ - http://www.elephantboycomputers.com/#FAQ |
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Yes. Dell OEM CD's for Windows XP Pro w/ SP2 are all the same. In addition,
you may need the D610 drivers, which are not on the XP Pro CD and which are on the Dell web site... Ben Myers On Tue, 29 Jul 2008 13:33:35 -0400, "Daave" wrote: I'm working on a friend's Dell Latitude D610 (Windows XP Pro, SP2 is on the machine and that is what the license is for). There is no installation disk for it handy as far as I know. If I need to perform a repair install (or a clean install for that matter), would I be able to use the Reinstallation CD that came with a Vostro 200? It is a Dell OEM CD for Windows XP Pro w/ SP2. |
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if doing a 'repair installation' as mentioned, then it should pick up the
drivers factory installed to the c:\dell folder. a great guid to xp repair reinstallation is found here http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/XPrepairinstall.htm "Ben Myers" wrote in message ... Yes. Dell OEM CD's for Windows XP Pro w/ SP2 are all the same. In addition, you may need the D610 drivers, which are not on the XP Pro CD and which are on the Dell web site... Ben Myers On Tue, 29 Jul 2008 13:33:35 -0400, "Daave" wrote: I'm working on a friend's Dell Latitude D610 (Windows XP Pro, SP2 is on the machine and that is what the license is for). There is no installation disk for it handy as far as I know. If I need to perform a repair install (or a clean install for that matter), would I be able to use the Reinstallation CD that came with a Vostro 200? It is a Dell OEM CD for Windows XP Pro w/ SP2. |
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See if there's a hidden Restore (AKA Recovery) partition you might use.
-- ~Robear Dyer (PA Bear) MS MVP-IE, Mail, Security, Windows Desktop Experience - since 2002 AumHa VSOP & Admin http://aumha.net DTS-L http://dts-l.net/ Daave wrote: I'm working on a friend's Dell Latitude D610 (Windows XP Pro, SP2 is on the machine and that is what the license is for). There is no installation disk for it handy as far as I know. If I need to perform a repair install (or a clean install for that matter), would I be able to use the Reinstallation CD that came with a Vostro 200? It is a Dell OEM CD for Windows XP Pro w/ SP2. |
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"BigJim" wrote in message ... yea it should work "Daave" wrote in message ... I'm working on a friend's Dell Latitude D610 (Windows XP Pro, SP2 is on the machine and that is what the license is for). There is no installation disk for it handy as far as I know. If I need to perform a repair install (or a clean install for that matter), would I be able to use the Reinstallation CD that came with a Vostro 200? It is a Dell OEM CD for Windows XP Pro w/ SP2. Yes it will work. Please don't cross-post to multiple groups. |
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"Malke" wrote in message
... Daave wrote: I'm working on a friend's Dell Latitude D610 (Windows XP Pro, SP2 is on the machine and that is what the license is for). There is no installation disk for it handy as far as I know. If I need to perform a repair install (or a clean install for that matter), would I be able to use the Reinstallation CD that came with a Vostro 200? It is a Dell OEM CD for Windows XP Pro w/ SP2. Yes. I see that the product key in the winnt.sif file on the CD that came with the Vostro matches the one associated with the Latitude (using Belarc Advisor), so I guess there shouldn't be any problems. If I were to do a clean install, I suppose I would need the laptop-specific drivers, but that shouldn't be a problem. |
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Be prepared by having the laptop-specific drivers on hand anyway... Ben Myers
On Tue, 29 Jul 2008 23:34:55 -0400, "Daave" wrote: "Malke" wrote in message ... Daave wrote: I'm working on a friend's Dell Latitude D610 (Windows XP Pro, SP2 is on the machine and that is what the license is for). There is no installation disk for it handy as far as I know. If I need to perform a repair install (or a clean install for that matter), would I be able to use the Reinstallation CD that came with a Vostro 200? It is a Dell OEM CD for Windows XP Pro w/ SP2. Yes. I see that the product key in the winnt.sif file on the CD that came with the Vostro matches the one associated with the Latitude (using Belarc Advisor), so I guess there shouldn't be any problems. If I were to do a clean install, I suppose I would need the laptop-specific drivers, but that shouldn't be a problem. |
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Daave wrote:
"Malke" wrote in message ... Daave wrote: I'm working on a friend's Dell Latitude D610 (Windows XP Pro, SP2 is on the machine and that is what the license is for). There is no installation disk for it handy as far as I know. If I need to perform a repair install (or a clean install for that matter), would I be able to use the Reinstallation CD that came with a Vostro 200? It is a Dell OEM CD for Windows XP Pro w/ SP2. Yes. I see that the product key in the winnt.sif file on the CD that came with the Vostro matches the one associated with the Latitude (using Belarc Advisor), so I guess there shouldn't be any problems. If I were to do a clean install, I suppose I would need the laptop-specific drivers, but that shouldn't be a problem. Yes, you will most definitely need the drivers. Not sure how many of them. Most of my equipment fails. The mouse and video are about all that worked. So a CD/thumb drive of drivers is going to be your friend. You might also have an AV software and if you don't use windows firewall then a firewall too should be on the CD. I load all that before I setup the wireless and connect to the internet. A side note. Acronis True Image Home or Norton Ghost seem to be the front runner suggestions for imaging software. If you think about it, and do the reload, I'd load up some of the major programs, do the major tweaking of Windows like removing bloatware etc. Then do an image of the drive for a later restore. You could even setup mail. The point being is that it takes about 20 minutes to restore a HD image with Acronis as compared to loading Windows, setup drivers, setup software, configure, tweak etc. I clocked about 8 hours to get my PC to a well configured clean install with a good part of my customization. That compared to a 20 minute reload. I even put in SP3 and IE7 and WMP11 updates from MS. I use Acronis and its great. You just need someplace to put the backup file that for a moderately loaded OS etc is about 5+ gigs. It goes on a big thumb, I cleared out a huge amount of things on my OS and got it to fit on a DVD. Took about 3 backups as the first 2 were too large. I removed things like the sample videos and pictures and wallpaper and $NTUninstall$ files etc. Removed all restore points. Wow I had to hit everything. Yes, this is a bit much for a friend so its more of an idea for you probably. Good luck. |
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