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August 14th, 2013 22:00
Question about upgrade Vostro 5460
Hi Dell Support,
Thank you!
I purchased Vostro 5460, and I am thinking to upgrade the system because it is not able to support some of my work that required a lot of resources:
My questions are:
1. Can I upgrade current 4GB DDR3 RAM to 8GB or 16GB (1600MHz)?
The spec suggested it is supported 4GB is there any technical reason DELL is using 4GB for this system will there be any overheating or any issue that we need to aware before we decided to upgrade? PS: I googled and found few users successfully install 8GB RAM, what DELL think about this?
2.a. My current OS is Wins 8, I think it is quite hard to learn Wins 8 and thinking to switch to ubuntu.
If I install Ubuntu at my main C:\ will I able to recover back, I think DELL created recovery partition somewhere in the system, If I need to restore back Win 8, how to recover it back?
2.b. If the HDD damage and I change the HDD how to recover back the system without recovery DVD?
3. If I am choosing using Win 8 and decided to install msata SSD, and I want to make the msata SSD as main tier 1 storage while the 500GB HDD disk as data disk, how to install the base OS + few application running on mstat?
Thank you.
Global User
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August 15th, 2013 01:00
My questions are:
1. Can I upgrade current 4GB DDR3 RAM to 8GB or 16GB (1600MHz)?
2. I think DELL created recovery partition somewhere in the system, If I need to restore back Win 8, how to recover it back with that partition?
3. if i installed msata on the notebook how to migrate or rebuild the system make use of that msata? step by step is helpful
Please note that this system do not have DVD drive therefore we only with bootable USB.
PS: Dell do sell Vostro 5460 with Ubuntu OS preinstall
DELL-Sujatha K
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August 15th, 2013 01:00
Hi Global,
Dell ships this system model with maximum of 6 GB DDR3 with 1600 MHz memory.
You may install Ubuntu if you wish to. However Dell will not support this software as Dell did not ship this system with Ubuntu.
Only way to restore the system back to Windows 8 is by recovery media or by manual reinstallation. Please find the link for instruction to create recovery media:
http://dell.to/17pbMq4
If the HDD is damaged, and if the system is within warranty, Dell will replace the HDD with the factory image. In case the system is out of warranty, software has to be installed using the recovery media.
The system is shipped with 32 GB mSATA drive. You may install the Operating system on the mSATA drive. However 32GB mSATA drive will not be sufficient to install other applications along with Operating system.
DELL-Sujatha K
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August 19th, 2013 02:00
Hi Global User.
As I already mentioned in my earlier post that Dell has tested only 6 GB memory on this system model. However it is technically possible to upgrade up to 8GB.
You may have to create a recovery discs to reinstall the operating system once again. While installing another Operating system, there are more chances for the recovery partition to get corrupted even though you have not deleted the partition.
You will need the operating system installation media. You may follow the steps below to install the Operating system on the mSATA drive. :
Reply to this post for further assistance.
Arif_Rahman
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September 6th, 2014 01:00
hello SUJATHA K
yes i i had more question i had a chat with dell support and says it can`t be upgrade . so she said the max size of ram are 4 GB
have you tested with 8GB or ram ?
because dell vostro 5460 only have 1 slot of ram only
YanishD
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February 16th, 2015 12:00
Hello
Did you manage to test the 8gb ram with the dell vostro 5460?