Need a Dell Replacement 1520

LOL This is the saaddest thing ever. Got my laptop on monday. Broke it on Tuesday! LMAOO!

Well i installed a demo of Partition Magic onto my computer to try and get rid of those darned PARTITIONS! Well the demo was incompatible with Vista, so i tried runnin it in COMPATIBILITY MODE (XP SP2)! WELL BAD IDEA! I started the program and once on the splash screen...a FEW ERRORS SHOWED AND said something claiming that it "fixed" my hard drives, and then the program crashed! Needless to say it DIDNT FIX ANYTHING... IT (I BELIeVeD) destroyed it. LOL! Vista froze and the computer restarted. Windows never started up normally again.

So i tried BOOTIN with the VISTA CD and here is where the problem is. My main hardrive where the OS is, was messed up. It is seen as UnAllocated space, and I can't start a new Partition/Format it/ delete/or extend that particular space.
And of course where returning to factory setting would be useful, i had already deleted the data on the RECOVERY partition.....

So after doin a bunch of tests and 2hrs of hardly understanding the dell tech service guy.... There's sending me a TOTALLY NEW COMPUTER. Accordin to them the computer is so new, that the HARD DRIVE is out of stock...(but yet they're gonna use one to make a brand new laptop...BS anybody?) But nonetheless the rep said he was able to get an expedite order on my build.....DO U THINK IT'S ACTUALLY GON GET HERE in 3-5 business days?

P.S. THings i've learned. DOn't use partition programs that r incompatible with vista.
And dont delete that stupid Recovery partition ...UGH!
and OH if any of you guys can figure out wats wrong.....(cuz i dont think my dell techie didnt kno wat he was doinG)....HELP!

 

dell guys never know whats going on. also, vista has a built in partition manager. but its not that great

 

Sounds to me like you are the one with the problem, and not Dell...you just don't know how to create your own partitions, being your own fault since you were messing with them anyway...

Nonetheless, they say 3-5 business days but it'll be more like 2-3 weeks

 

Considering you got a brand new laptop after the one you had wasn't faulty to start with, I wouldn't even worry about it not getting there in 3-5 business days, which I could almost promise you that it will not.

 

Boot into a linux live CD and open GPartition or whatever HD manager your distro comes with, reallocate the space into one partition and install Vista again from the CD. After that, do not twat about with partitions and especially partition software unless you know what you are doing.

 

I don't wanna sound like an a$$hole but it pisses me off when someone asks for a replacement when they messed up something on their own. It's part of the reason the rest of us have to wait so long for our notebooks to be shipped.

 

first of all... ive dealt with partitions before...
I installed a program that was incompatible with VISTA...and AS i started it...before I COULD EVEN DO ANYTHIN WITH THE PROGRAM... it altered my hard drive and messed it up...
AND I didnt ASK for a replacement. I just wanted a hard drive. So plz!
And good to kno im not the only with no faith in dell..

 

$20 says he didn't mess anything up, he just deleted all the partitions and doesn't know how to create a new one...

 

If you're really getting a new computer in 3-5 days just cause you ****ed up a perfectly good one when I'm waiting a month for one I payed good money for...

/end rant

Ya, heh, partitions are NOT to be ****ed with, at least not the recovery partition. If you're not precisely sure of what you're doing, make sure you have a backup plan, like on a PC you can just throw the ****ed up hard drive into another PC and format it for a fresh start, but I don't suppose the PC you're probably using right now can take a dell laptop hard drive

 

Wait, this partition managing software hosed the system before you could click anything? I smell a white lie.