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    xps 13 9333 - clean win 10?

    Discussion in 'Dell XPS and Studio XPS' started by yordanrhapsody, Oct 18, 2015.

  1. yordanrhapsody

    yordanrhapsody Notebook Enthusiast

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    hi everybody
    I just bought an used (mint condition) xps 13 with i7-4510u 8gb 256ssd and the previous owner upgraded to win 10 but there are all his programs still installed

    also, I found that the ssd is partitioned with several recovery and fast boot, so that I have only 210gb of hdd (134free because of the programs mentioned above)

    I'd like to clean install Windows 10 on it

    1. can I get rid of every partition (I don't need recovery, the Others are useful?)?
    2. Can I install win 10 using the SN that I can extrapolate from the current OS?
    3. there are some problems with drivers to know? like some order in which install (In past I found complicated doing clean install on sony vaio notebooks, are dell's the same?)
     
    yordanrhapsody, Oct 18, 2015
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  2. kent1146

    kent1146 Notebook Prophet

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    Those extra partitions are for sysem recovery. If you are comfortable doing your own OS install, then you can get rid of those partitions.

    If the laptop has already installed windows 10, then you can just do a straight clean reinstall. No need to put in a serial number. Windows 10 uses a hardware fingerprint for activation, much like previous OEM versions of Windows 7/8.

    And no special order to reinstall drivers. Dell doesn't use a lot of propriety hardware, like Sony vaios.

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    kent1146, Oct 18, 2015
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