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    How do you reinstall all drivers at once

    Discussion in 'Dell XPS and Studio XPS' started by JellyBeans, Aug 14, 2008.

  1. JellyBeans

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    Ok I clean installled windows to fix some errors and stuff. How can I install drivers from the driver cd all at once instead of doing it 1 at a time?
     
    JellyBeans, Aug 14, 2008
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  2. Commander Wolf

    Commander Wolf can i haz broadwell?

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    I'm pretty sure that Dell doesn't give you a way to do this by default (though someone please enlighten me if I'm wrong). You're probably going to have to write your own script or something if you want to automate just the driver installation process. Your other option is to slipstream the drivers onto an installation disk (using nLite or vLite), but this isn't going to help once you've already installed Windows.
     
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    Yeah I've been meaning to find a way to do this too...but for now if you don't want to manually install all the drivers. best to just run the recovery partition and deal with with the Media Direct / Other Partitions eating up all your hard drive space (the disk doesn't have them all either? It's a really buggy CD...well at least the one I got anyways).

    But..if anyone has a solution, I'm sure there's more people who are interested in it as well. Bump!
     
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    how do I use the recovery partion?
     
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  5. Commander Wolf

    Commander Wolf can i haz broadwell?

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    If you wiped your drive before you re-installed Windows, you can't. Otherwise, you press a special key combination at boot (like ctrl + F11 or something) and you'll boot into the recovery partition. At this point though, it's WAY easier to just install the drivers one at a time. There's usually no more than ten or so...
     
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    bikerboy94, Aug 15, 2008
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