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Don Phillipson
I must sort out a friend's Dell Dimension 2400 PC,
WinXP, thus plan to Restore from either the WinXP
or Dell (Symantec) restore disks, both brieflly and
incompletely described in the Dell manual.
Does anyone know
1 whether either Restore disk processes ProductID
(or Activation) numbers automatically (as you might
expect for bundled Dell software)
1 whether one can reformat completely without
losing ProductID or Activation numbers.
For simplicity's sake, I prefer to reformat C: but have
no prior experience installing XP. The question is
whether either Restore routine (MS or Dell) is fully
automatic, including ProductID etc., or requires data
I would lose if I repartitioned and reformatted first.
(Symantec will not tell me, referring me to Dell, the
Dell web site does not say, and Dell accepts emails
only from the USA.)
WinXP, thus plan to Restore from either the WinXP
or Dell (Symantec) restore disks, both brieflly and
incompletely described in the Dell manual.
Does anyone know
1 whether either Restore disk processes ProductID
(or Activation) numbers automatically (as you might
expect for bundled Dell software)
1 whether one can reformat completely without
losing ProductID or Activation numbers.
For simplicity's sake, I prefer to reformat C: but have
no prior experience installing XP. The question is
whether either Restore routine (MS or Dell) is fully
automatic, including ProductID etc., or requires data
I would lose if I repartitioned and reformatted first.
(Symantec will not tell me, referring me to Dell, the
Dell web site does not say, and Dell accepts emails
only from the USA.)