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My new Inspiron 6000 did not ship with a CD containing all the drivers for my system like my previous Dell notebooks have.
I have heard it is now routine for Dell not to ship a driver backup CD. Is it still possible to get such a CD, even if I have to pay for it?
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unit41_ofc_unit
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Posted March 20th, 2005 05:00
@jbkelly73 wrote:
My new Inspiron 6000 did not ship with a CD containing all the drivers for my system like my previous Dell notebooks have.I have heard it is now routine for Dell not to ship a driver backup CD. Is it still possible to get such a CD, even if I have to pay for it?
You can download the drivers, but you need the utilities and programs CD to reinstall things like Sonic, Norton/McAfee, Dell Media ect....- Yes, I know I *could* download the needed drivers from the Dell site. However, I would never know exactly which drivers I need. I'm sure I would miss one or two. It was much easier when all the drivers customized for my particular system were in one place on a CD. The question remains: Is it possible to buy such a disk?
- Well that's just it. The CD that came with the systems was NOT customized for your unit. It was for ALL units of that MODEL. So you would have drivers you may not need. If you download all drivers for your model you will have all the drivers you need.

Ed C
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Posted March 19th, 2005 20:00