thurstongarden;371920 Wrote: > OK - the nice people at Dell are sending me an OS disk. They also > emailed me a link on reinstalling and creating a partition, so it's all > guns blazing come the holidays! > > Best startup time I can get down to is 7 mins, a vast improvement on > 15, but 2 or 3 mins is probably the norm. I think having my music on a > clean partition will save a lot of time in the future - I am going to > start the back up to my external HD when I leave for my parents on Xmas > Eve. Hopefully it will all be moved over by my return on Boxing Day. > Then the partitioning can begin! > > Thanks all for the pointers. I will update you on progress shortly! > > TG.
Hi Thurston, Not to beat this in to the ground, but did they send you a drivers disk? If not, the lbest you can do is go to Dell support and find where you can look up your system. I think under support.dell you look for drivers and downloads. Put in your system number and download all the drivers for your system. It may not be everything, but it will be a good start. Just to drive my point home, go to start/run and type cmd and press enter. In the command window type driverquery and see what list of drivers it brings up. Those are all on your PC. A lot of them are included with Windows, but as many aren't. When you partition, make sure you make the primary partition large enough for expansion in case you add software. You really don't want to put anything but data on the second partition. Personally, I wish you would reconsider partitioning and put a second drive in. It makes a lot more sense in the long run for expansion, maintenance, etc.. Another plus is if you ever find yourself in this situation again you will only have to load back the OS and not all of the music, etc. Much fater and easier. Either way, good luck and have fun over Christmas. Howard -- Howard Passman .....and still waiting for extra cradles.. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Howard Passman's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=16674 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=56381 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
