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February 12th, 2006 12:00
Dimension 9150 partitioning
If I do a re-install (either because I want to or because the partitioning tool failed and I have to!) and partition exercise on my machine, I see from various posts that there is likely to be an issue to do with installing the SATA/RAID drivers early on in the XP install process. I see the usual advice is to load the appropriate driver from a floppy. Of course these machines, by default, have NO FLOPPY DRIVE, so that is a possible problem. Floppies are regarded pretty much as legacy devices these days anyway. I don't want to install one whilst the machine is in the warranty period.
Any advice as to the preferred way of carrying out this operation? Is it going to be possible without hitting this block?
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Any advice as to the preferred way of carrying out this operation? Is it going to be possible without hitting this block?
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- http://www.cs.utexas.edu/~jywu/notes/Dim8400.html
http://support.dell.com/support/topics/global.aspx/support/kb/en/document?dn=1091375&c=us&l=en&s=gen&cs=
Best advice is to image your OS with Ghost 10 etc so that if you encounter a problem you can restore the image in 5 minutes rather than the tedious alternative. qwerty1357
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Posted February 13th, 2006 11:00
@lennoxhd wrote:
http://www.cs.utexas.edu/~jywu/notes/Dim8400.html
http://support.dell.com/support/topics/global.aspx/support/kb/en/document?dn=1091375&c=us&l=en&s=gen&cs=
Best advice is to image your OS with Ghost 10 etc so that if you encounter a problem you can restore the image in 5 minutes rather than the tedious alternative.
Thanks! That's the kind of stuff I was looking for. Although I have Acronis TrueImage for disk imaging and backup, a clean install from a fresh format, without all the Dell supplied junk, is an attractive proposition. According to the Dell support page you quoted, newer versions of the XP install disk may well have the SATA drivers in place. Otherwise an install to ATA mode follwed by an update once Windows is running may work. If all fails I can always revert to a restored image.
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Posted February 17th, 2006 19:00
@qwerty1357 wrote:
Although I have Acronis TrueImage for disk imaging and backup, a clean install from a fresh format, without all the Dell supplied junk, is an attractive proposition. According to the Dell support page you quoted, newer versions of the XP install disk may well have the SATA drivers in place. Otherwise an install to ATA mode follwed by an update once Windows is running may work. If all fails I can always revert to a restored image.
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Well as a follow up I must say a clean install on a Dimension 9150 is NOT such an attractive proposition! The install halts at the Setup stage (after copying files) because (and I know this is hard to believe) the USB keyboard won't talk to the machine! The level of OS running at that stage apparently can't accept inputs from a USB device! OF course the 9150 has no PS2 sockets, or any floppy drive so the obvious ways round this block won't work.
If anyone knows a work-round I would be grateful for their advice.
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Posted February 12th, 2006 12:00