After installing the operating system you need to install some specific additional drivers for your system. These may be on a CD included with your system or downloaded from the Dell Support site. Be sure to note there is a recommended sequence.

http://support.dell.com/support/downloads/driverslist.aspx?os=WNT5&osl=EN&catid=-1&impid=-1&servicetag=&SystemID=INS_PNT_CEL_4000&hidos=WW1&hidlang=en


http://support.dell.com/support/topics/global.aspx/support/downloads/en/drivers_help?~ck=ln&c=us&l=en&lnki=0&s=gen


GM

Gents, Thanks for your help. appreciated. I have installed drivers as advised and note book is working as required. I now want to partition my disk drive i.e. C:\ and D:\. Could you advise how I can go about partitioning my disk drive? Cheers

You'll need imaging software to save a copy of the existing installation elsewhere or something like Partition Magic to shrink the existing partition without deleting the existing installation, or you'll need to re-install Windows after deleting the existing partition and creating/formatting two smaller ones.

Capturing an image of your current Windows installation and saving the image file to CD/DVD or another hard disk drive is recommended for backup in any case. In this case, would allow you to restore the image after partitioning and formatting with any compatible tool, without worrying about the installation because it's backed up.

A free or inexpensive DOS-based imaging utility would be adequate, but you can also get late-model Windows-based imaging software with incremental/differential image update capabilities.


GM

Message Edited by GreyMack on 12-22-2007 08:07 PM