Just got my 1520, questions

I want to wipe my hdd and install vista without the dell partition and other garbage. Will the Vista disk they gave me reinstall all the bloatware? Or can I use my cd key with another Vista disk maybe? thanks in advance!

 

Good plan, I am going to do the same thing. Their vista disk will only install vista, nothing else.
Wipe it all, kill everything they misguidedly put on there.

 

Awesome! It's gone.

 

Hah, lucky. Mine is estimated to ship in a week (on the 30th) if its not delayed...
When did you order it and when did it ship? Was it before the estimated ship date? What color is it too?

 

is deleting the dell partition easy?? if so how do we do it? *scratches head*

 

when you did that were you able to get mediadirect to work again?

 

Hmm. I also want to know. Teehee!!

 

Deleting the dell partition is easy if you are reinstalling the operating system. There is an option to do it before you install the new OS.

 

Here are instructions to reinstall media direct.
http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=54366
I'm not sure if it works, because I haven't gotten my computer yet.

 

Where are the directions?

 

I forgot it and just put it in

 

^^ Thanks Jdban. My 1420 should arrive when your one arrives too. Aaaah!! Can't wait to get it. Clean installing is the first thing I'll do. ^^

 

I am just curious because I really haven't noticed a ton of bloatware, some of the stuff I will actually use, and so far no problems, but if I do have them i would like to get my 10 gig partition back for storage as I only have the 80 gig for now. I plan to upgrade to a 200+ 7200 rpm before the end of the year.

 

There are programs that you can use to repartition without actually formatting everything, but its risky.

 

would rather not take the risk then. until i get really low on space I am not gonna worry too much about it.

 

I once tried it, and ended up formatting the hard drive.
You have to be VERY CAREFUL when using them. Norton ghostpartition (or someting like that) is one of them

 

I got a black 1520. Ordered the 17th, estimated ship date was August third, got it today the 24th. Not bad. When you boot from the Vista disk you can delete the partitions and make just one. It walks you through it. I am not going to use media direct.

 

I have a question about reinstalling Vista. As of now, I don't see any reason to do it. I see no bloatware...nothing compared to my Sony Vaio....and nothing compared to how many negative comments there are about Dell.

What I want to know is....is it safe to just remove the partition if I have all the discs, including the Vista Home Premium 32bit installation disc and all the other discs that came with it?

If so, how can I do this properly? I want to remove it so my bro gets 10GB extra space.

 

hi there, i just ordered a black 1520 (my 1st laptop) , so do you guys suggest to make partition or just keep the hard disk without any partition?

 

The hdd will come with 3 partitions. One for windows, one for recovery, the other for media direct. But you do need at least one partition to install windows. Vista didn't even take 30 minutes to reinstall so it was worth it to me to know that I didn't have a bunch of programs running in the background.

 

does the standard package come with a 30 day trial of office 2007? im going to need that for this month until i get back to college and can buy it at discount. if i reinstall vista to get rid of bloatware, im assuming the office trial doesnt come on a CD right...

 

Y use office at all? Why not just downlaod openoffice (wich is free)?

 

Put in Vista disc while changing BIOS to boot from CD priority, save and exit.
Press any key to boot to vista cd when message comes up.
Delete Dell Recovery and windows OS partition, you now have one chunk of empty space and media direct partition.
Create new partition with all that empty space and install Vista.

Reinstall Drivers from dell.com entering your service tag for the proper ones.
Reinstall video card driver from laptopvideo2go.com (make sure you follow their guides and instructions for .inf and what not).
Put in Media Direct CD and install it will go to about 10% and say its done and ready because we kept its partition.

Done deal, just did it yesterday.

And no there is no bloatware on the Vista Disc

 

Are the drivers from laptopvideo2go.com safe? I thought there was a warning associated with them.

 

i second that. i'm using open office on my 1520, and i have no complaints whatsoever (and i save about 100 USD)