Without being too familiar with your system, you may have to go into the bios and change the boot order of your drives. If you have a Windows Vista install CD, make your primary boot drive the CD drive you will be putting the CD in. That way it will check the CD drive first to see if there is a bootable disk in it.
If this sounds foreign to you, do not attempt it and contact Dell here.
I tried downloading again..system says the drivers are missing. I've gone to dells website found the drivers but they are exe files with my computer being unable to read it I can't get them to download them. I have the disk that came with the computer to add the drivers but the disk is not finding any drivers on it. I put it on my other computer and looks like it's in here but don't understand why the other computer doesn't find it. Any suggestions how to put the drivers on the hard drive...I tried inserting the disk to see if it would re boot to install them but haven't had any luck yet. Thanks for the suggestions...
Thanks for the help. I have put the BIOs to boot from the CD drive... it boots the cd but gets to a stopping point as it can't find the device drivers. I have not been able to locate them. I have a CD that has them on it but it won't let me extract the files to put them on hard drive. I have a Dell Inspirion D530 Model. Had it a year..... I have contacted dell but they just want you to buy a new one... LOL
I’m assuming you already know that ALL peripheral devices (includes NIC adapter cable) must be disconnected (excludes monitor, keyboard/mouse)
And it sounds like you’re familiar with need to first insert the Dell OEM Vista CD/DVD then boot from the CD-ROM device to proceed with Clean Install process via Windows Setup
If all the above is correct, then exactly at what stage during Windows Setup do you encounter the problem?
E.g. Does the Vista CD/DVD actually load Windows Setup screen with options to proceed?
jjon90
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April 28th, 2009 12:00
Without being too familiar with your system, you may have to go into the bios and change the boot order of your drives. If you have a Windows Vista install CD, make your primary boot drive the CD drive you will be putting the CD in. That way it will check the CD drive first to see if there is a bootable disk in it.
If this sounds foreign to you, do not attempt it and contact Dell here.
Heartoluv
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April 28th, 2009 19:00
I tried downloading again..system says the drivers are missing. I've gone to dells website found the drivers but they are exe files with my computer being unable to read it I can't get them to download them. I have the disk that came with the computer to add the drivers but the disk is not finding any drivers on it. I put it on my other computer and looks like it's in here but don't understand why the other computer doesn't find it. Any suggestions how to put the drivers on the hard drive...I tried inserting the disk to see if it would re boot to install them but haven't had any luck yet. Thanks for the suggestions...
jjon90
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April 28th, 2009 21:00
Does it give you the choice to manually install the drivers? If so direct it to the directory were you saw them.
Heartoluv
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October 28th, 2009 13:00
Thanks for the help. I have put the BIOs to boot from the CD drive... it boots the cd but gets to a stopping point as it can't find the device drivers. I have not been able to locate them. I have a CD that has them on it but it won't let me extract the files to put them on hard drive. I have a Dell Inspirion D530 Model. Had it a year..... I have contacted dell but they just want you to buy a new one... LOL
BELL BOY
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October 28th, 2009 18:00
Heartoluv
I’m assuming you already know that ALL peripheral devices (includes NIC adapter cable) must be disconnected (excludes monitor, keyboard/mouse)
And it sounds like you’re familiar with need to first insert the Dell OEM Vista CD/DVD then boot from the CD-ROM device to proceed with Clean Install process via Windows Setup
If all the above is correct, then exactly at what stage during Windows Setup do you encounter the problem?
E.g. Does the Vista CD/DVD actually load Windows Setup screen with options to proceed?
If not, can you post exact error code & message