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August 3rd, 2015 19:00

how to setup / Upgrading my new XPS 15 9530

I need some advice / help please on Setting up / Upgrading the following:  (I have not used my system yet, so hopefully I’ll get a quick reply, Thanks in advance for all the help  J )

I just received the following as a gift

  • New XPS15 9530 as a gift. (XPS 15.6 4k Ultra HD Touch-Screen, I7-4712HQ, 16gb Ram, 1 TB 5400 HDD, 32gb SSD, Nvidia GT570)
  • It was purchased at Best Buy (Best Buy item # XPS156847SLV)   online July 16th 2015  however it was not delivered until July 24th late in the day. 
  • At the same time he ordered the following items: Dell USB 3.0 Docking station 452BBPG, LG BE14NU40 External USB 3.0 Blu-Ray Writer, Dynex153 Mini display adapter, J5 USB3 to gigabit Ethernet adapter,  Samsung 850Pro Tb SSD  Model MZ-7KE1T0BW  Drive to replace the internal HDD.
  • He was also supposed to get an Samsung 850 MSata drive to be installed as well, they were out of stock so I may do that later.

When I do the following upgrade I don’t want to violate any warranty with Dell I plan on purchasing  a 4 year warranty from Dell & the  Accidental protection as well, as I understand it from a Dell Rep I need to wait till the computer is 30 days old before I can purchase that.

  • I want to replace the 1tb Travelstar Z5K1000 hdd with the Samsung 850Pro 1tb MZ-7KE1T0BW drive. 

 

  • I wanted to partition the drive to have a boot partition that will also have the install files for programs  the 2nd partition will be for the actual data.  Docs, downloads, i.e. everything that is going to change hopefully.

 

  • I wanted to do a clean install of windows 10 as part of this upgrade.  How do I do this? Can I order the Media or the .ISO file from Dell for my New XPS? (In the past Microsoft had suggested to do a clean install of upgrades i.e. put in the upgrade dvd/cd and start the install when it asks for the location of the licensed Windows you would then remove the upgrade dvd/cd and put in the other media it would read the license ( at some point you had to put in the COA too) and then you would put back in the upgrade media again to finish.    This would give you a much more stable upgrade install.)

 

  • Can someone please give me the instructions as to how I need to do this?  (  if part of the answer is to create backup media when giving me the instructions I would prefer to create a backup dvd in addition to a  USB Drive if the advice is to create a USB drive backup  so I will have the backup on some type of long term storage media, Can I do that? And if so how?)

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August 3rd, 2015 20:00

can  you make more than one copies of the 8.1 media?  incase windows 10 has issues of sometype? 

where do I get the license key?

and do I have to wait for the message from microsoft or can I use the downloadable win10 upgrade file?

also is there a way to do the win 10 install without dell specific programs that I may not want to use? 

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August 3rd, 2015 20:00

1.  No problem;  the SSD will work fine.

2.  MAKE the recovery media before you do anything else - use the Dell backup and recovery utility on the system drive.  

3.  The only way to install 10 without charge is to do an upgrade.  Make sure you activate the OS.  Then you can, using the same system, install a clean copy of 10.  If you do this any other way it'll involve the purchase of a new license key.

4.  You really only need the 8.1 backup media for a short time - plus of course a backup of the Windows 10 install ISO or flash drive/DVDs.

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