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    Formatting Laptop tonight, advice?

    Discussion in 'Samsung' started by drummerian, Oct 27, 2008.

  1. drummerian

    drummerian Notebook Consultant

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    Hi ppl,

    Tonight i will be formatting my laptop (q310), i will be installing vista on one partition and xp on another. Just wondering if theres any x64bit options yet? and also if there is anything you reccomend...bios update? thanks!
     
    drummerian, Oct 27, 2008
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  2. Meetloaf13

    Meetloaf13 fear the MONKEY!!!

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    few tips:
    If you're going to dual-boot, I recommend making a separate partition for all of your files. I have done this for over a year and installed Vista/XP/Ubuntu, w/o having to recopy 80GB of files b/c they stay in a separate partition untouched when I want to do a reinstall,

    I'm a Dell-boy, so I don't know anything hardware specific for you. That said, here's my generic advice:

    May I suggest a few things.

    1)Download all of your drivers/programs first and put them on your "other" partition or a flash drive. I tend to get a bit excited and get all scatter-brained if I don't.

    2) I like to put all drivers in one folder, all programs in another, and all files in another. Inside each folder I put a folder that says "installed", and after installing each driver I drag it into that folder so I know what I have left to do.

    3) when I install windows, I only install the minimal drivers, I think only the chipset. then I run ALL Windows Updates (ignore any driver updates for now), including SP1 and beyond. THEN I begin to install drivers and programs. I have found this to give me optimal boot-time and performance.

    After that is all said and done, I perform the tweaks of my choice from Les' Vista Tweaks Thread (it is stickied in the Windows section here:
    http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=166532

    Ciao
     
    Meetloaf13, Oct 27, 2008
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