Restoring XP that way may be a bad idea, I think the repair partition does many more things besides just reinstalling windows, it also attempts to put everything back to a state it was in when you orinally got it. I am not 100% with VMware, is there any advanatage to running windows under it? If you think it would be a great benefit, it may be worth trying.
I need to run Linux and Windows simultaneously, and VMware provides this very nicely, but you typically do a fresh installation of Windows inside the VMware virtual machine.
I purchased a Windows XP license from Dell (in fact, I was forced to) and now Dell seems to be limiting the way in which I can use it. Why not provide me with XP CDs to go along with my purchase?!? Surely I'm not supposed to go purchase *another* copy of XP for this machine?
No need to purchase the cd, just call them up and tell them the one time CD creating wizard didn't work and you need the cds, they should mail them to you!
No need to purchase the cd, just call them up and tell them the one time CD creating wizard didn't work and you need the cds, they should mail them to you!
When you buy a pc/laptop from dell now, they charge you 10 bucks if you want the CD.
Message Edited by dsbInspiron on 09-16-2005 01:48 PM
dsbInspiron
222 Posts
0
September 16th, 2005 11:00
Kevin in Austin
3 Posts
0
September 16th, 2005 12:00
dsbInspiron
222 Posts
0
September 16th, 2005 17:00
No need to purchase the cd, just call them up and tell them the one time CD creating wizard didn't work and you need the cds, they should mail them to you!
When you
dsbInspiron
222 Posts
0
September 16th, 2005 17:00
No need to purchase the cd, just call them up and tell them the one time CD creating wizard didn't work and you need the cds, they should mail them to you!
When you buy a pc/laptop from dell now, they charge you 10 bucks if you want the CD.
Message Edited by dsbInspiron on 09-16-2005 01:48 PM
Kevin in Austin
3 Posts
0
September 16th, 2005 19:00