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    xps 14z bloatware removal and recovery partition questions

    Discussion in 'Dell XPS and Studio XPS' started by stringman, Aug 4, 2012.

  1. stringman

    stringman Notebook Enthusiast

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    Hi

    I have just received my refurbished xps14z and as usual its full of bloatware and crap programs.

    my last dell(a refurb xps1340) came with OS discs and a driver disc.

    This new one doesnt ( though i have burnt the recovery discs)

    with the old dell i did a clean windows install, loaded the drivers and progs i wanted and then ghosted the image onto a partition of the hard drive and onto a portable hard drive.

    The xps14z has a recovery partition. So I can get teh computer up and running but in the Dell factory state.

    Ghost has decided not work on this machine so i have now started with Macrim Reflect (free)

    My Questions are:

    1) if i do a clean windows install I presume that it will not affect the recovery position?

    2) using macrium I presume i can create a back up image of just the "data" partitionand not bother with the recovery partition?

    3) would i be better off reformatting the entire drive, clean installing windows running a Macrium image and storing that on a partition of the drive?

    4) if so could i create a recovery partion with that macrium image?

    sorry for so many questions but after wasting 2 days on ghost images, failed macrium backups and reinstalling windows and dell data recovery (before i even start removing bloatware and loading progs) I thought it time to ask the experts!

    Thanks in advance
     
    stringman, Aug 4, 2012
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