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Custom Win7 update from Dell?
I have a Dell laptop with Vista, 2 years old, and other than that have
no recent experience with Dell. It has the usual recovery partition. Obviously I am not going to get a free Win7 upgrade, but I was wondering if Dell will likely have custom upgrades which also upgrade the recovery and other Dell specific features? -- Alan |
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Custom Win7 update from Dell?
"Alan Biddle" wrote in message ... I have a Dell laptop with Vista, 2 years old, and other than that have no recent experience with Dell. It has the usual recovery partition. Obviously I am not going to get a free Win7 upgrade, but I was wondering if Dell will likely have custom upgrades which also upgrade the recovery and other Dell specific features? -- Alan My guess: negative. You're looking at a straight Win 7 upgrade disc either Dell OEM or retail. ie: Just an OS disc. If you do a true upgrade with either, your factory image restore partition will obviously still contain the original Vista image (unless you blow that partition up somehow). |
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Custom Win7 update from Dell?
-----Original Message----- From: Hank Arnold ] Posted At: Tuesday, June 30, 2009 2:56 AM Posted To: alt.sys.pc-clone.dell Conversation: Custom Win7 update from Dell? Subject: Custom Win7 update from Dell? Alan Biddle wrote: I have a Dell laptop with Vista, 2 years old, and other than that have no recent experience with Dell. It has the usual recovery partition. Obviously I am not going to get a free Win7 upgrade, but I was wondering if Dell will likely have custom upgrades which also upgrade the recovery and other Dell specific features? -- Alan First off, I'm not sure what you mean by "the usual recovery partition". I've purchased Dell Latitudes for the Hospice I support several times over the past 5 years and none have had a "recovery partition". They *DO* have a utility partition for running diagnostics, though. Perhaps that's what you meant? As to upgrading to W7, you should get an activation code with it whether you get it from Dell, MS or an OEM. Dell's CD/DVD will be teh same as any other OEM's other than being able to recognize a Dell CPU... -- Regards, Hank Arnold All the Insprions DO have recovery partitions. The upgrade will NOT upgrade that. Dell's upgrade will likely be a true Microsoft upgrade disk. It was in the 2000-XP upgrade. |
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