I'm restoring my Dell. I have the following: 1) Dell OS Restore Disk, 2) Dell Drivers and Utilities Disk.

Help please: I have a very specific question on the order of things - what's best to be done here. My concern (if you notice the difference in getting updated drivers) has to do with when to best install them. Approach A has me using the original drivers with the original OS and then doing Windows updates and ending with getting any updated Dell drivers - my thought being that the updated drivers may depend on or have been created as a response to Windows updates that have come out since the original drivers and compatibility problems of jumping right to using the newest drivers without having the updates from MS.

Approach "A"

1 - Install Dell OS Restore Disk
2 - Install drivers and utilities from the supplied Dell Drivers and Utilities Disk (perhaps older original)
3 - Windows Update (over and over until all high priority updates are done.)
4 - Go to Dell website for my computer and look for and install any *updated* Drivers and Utilities (AFTER going first to Windows Update)
5 - Windows Update just for good measure.

OR

Approach "B"

1 - Install Dell OS Restore Disk
2 - Install drivers and utilities from the supplied Dell Drivers and Utilities Disk (perhaps older orginal)
3 - Then go to Dell website for my computer and look for and install any *updated* Drivers and Utilities (BEFORE going to Windows Update)
4 - Windows Update (over and over until all high priority updates are done.)

Looking forward to advice and thoughts!

   - David