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    Reformating M1530 need some driver advice.

    Discussion in 'Dell XPS and Studio XPS' started by Wally19, Jan 30, 2010.

  1. Wally19

    Wally19 Notebook Guru

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    Ok, I have neglected my M1530 for WAY to long and it is in desperate need of reformatting. I also have not paid too much attention to the forums and what is the latest and greatest out there so I was wondering if you all could recommend which drivers I should search out before I dump my system. I have my dell drivers cd and operating system cd, but its over 2 years old. I am looking for the latest and greatest Video, Audio, anything special, etc.

    Also, If there is anything cool new trick I should do to reformat, I would appreciate it. I was at one point going to put on a linux partition, but am going to skip it for now. I am planing planning on 3 partitions.
    1. Media Direct (Only have used a few times, so maybe I should skip??)
    2. Windows
    3. Data (would like to split this on, but I think i am limited to 3 partions with media direct??)


    Thanks,
    Walter
     
    Wally19, Jan 30, 2010
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    blazom Notebook Consultant

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    insert MD disk
    format HDD but choose custom size of system partition and make it f.e. 40GB
    that will create:

    fitst 50MB partiotion for Dell Diagnostic
    second 40 GB for system
    free space
    and 2GB for MD in the end of the HDD


    then u can create 2 or more partition in that free space( in the begining of Win install or later)



    and read this:

    http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?p=5501702#post5501702
     
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    Just thought about that Idea. And that is how I am going to proceed. Just about ready to start, so I will update on the flip side.
     
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    Control panel -> Administrative tools - > Computer management ->Disk management
     
    blazom, Jan 31, 2010
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