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    Dell Windows 7 Installation Disc - Long Wait to Boot Screen

    Discussion in 'Dell' started by Rodster, May 17, 2011.

  1. Rodster

    Rodster Merica

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    Anyone else experiencing excruciating long boot to installation screen? :mad:

    For me it takes on average of 5-10 minutes. I thought there was a problem with the disc and had Dell send me a replacement disc, same thing. These Windows 7 disc are different now. They have a language selector so I guess it saves them having to make different Discs based on region. But what a trade off.

    So anyone else try and do a clean install with these new Windows 7 discs?
     
    Rodster, May 17, 2011
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  2. Commander Wolf

    Commander Wolf can i haz broadwell?

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    It's been slow (relative to XP and Vista disks at least) for all the Dell 7 disks I've tried. Just make a bootable USB device from the disk and never have to deal with optical media again :)
     
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  3. Rodster

    Rodster Merica

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    Thanks :)
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    Rodster, May 17, 2011
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    Robin24k Notebook Deity

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    It should be surprising if booting from optical media was fast...not to mention that OEM disks are larger than retail or volume disks. After all, it's a double-layer DVD...the original disk is only around 2.5GB for x86 and 3GB for x64.

    If you want a faster (and potentially cleaner) install, use a retail disk and enter in the key from the sticker on the laptop.
     
    Robin24k, May 17, 2011
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  5. Rodster

    Rodster Merica

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    My biggest problem with the OEM DVD is you literally wait about 10-15 minutes before you even get to the first Windows 7 screen. What's even worse is typically most computers are running full throttle in protected mode without any power manager to throttle back.

    My laptop and drive were getting hot just waiting for the first screen to come up. The retail version is FAST !

    I'm creating a USB to install from.
     
    Rodster, May 17, 2011
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