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    Reformatting to Windows 7

    Discussion in 'Dell XPS and Studio XPS' started by zee_cat, Apr 29, 2010.

  1. zee_cat

    zee_cat Notebook Enthusiast

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    So its been almost two years since i got my xps m1530, and ive decided to reformat to Windows 7 x64 from Vista 32, so i can actually use my 4gigs of ram. Any advice, suggestions or problems anyone's had reformatting? Also, the drivers i got with my laptop, those won't work since they're only for Vista right?

    Thanks in advance.
     
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    mr_bots Notebook Evangelist

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    Should be pretty straight forward. The drivers off your CD mainly won't work because they're for a 32bit OS. Just get the chipset drivers from Intel (and Wifi card if it's intel), GPU drivers from Nvidia. Other drivers try the 64 bit Vista drivers for your system from Dell, if they don't work try 7 drivers from other systems that had the same hardware (i.e. use the same model Wifi Card, bluetooth, etc.). 7 is also pretty good about having driver support and if it's not built in it usually directs you where to get them.
     
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    Cin', Apr 29, 2010
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