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?


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Alan

"Alan Biddle" wrote in message
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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).

-----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...

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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.