Reimaging Dell PC/Laptops with DELL OEM Media and MDT
Hi AllWe have MDT and WDS deployed in our environment and are having problems with drivers and licensing.Scenario 1:MDT 2012 update 1{1.1} When using MDT 2012 and the Dell OEM Media (unmodified...
View ArticleXPS M1730 Vista - Hard Drive Crash
My XPS M1730 Laptop's hard drives are crashing. I need to replace the hard drives but Dell did not provide me with a Disk copy of the OS (Vista). How do i get the original OS re-installed on the new...
View ArticleDid the Optiplex GX620 and 745 come with Resource CDs?
I bought a pair of Optiplexes - a GX620 and a 745 - without hard drives and would like to get them up and running. Over the years, I've refurbished dozens of Optiplex GXa, GX1, GX110, GX150, GX270...
View ArticleUnable to restore: USB Ports stop working after booting Recovery Disk and...
Tl;dr USB Ports stop working after booting Recovery Disk and Norton Ghost.Long version. I have a Dell Laptop XPS 15. The hard drive recently died. I have a recent back up on a WD Passport I created...
View ArticleDell Windows Vista Home Premium backup-cert.xrm-ms File
This is the Windows Vista Home Premium backup-cert.xrm-ms obtained from the Dell Windows Vista Reinstallation DVD.It needs to be used in conjunction with the backup-key.txt file and the Activation...
View ArticleDell Windows Vista Home Premium backup-key.txt File
This is the Windows Vista Home Premium backup-key.txt obtained from the Dell Windows Vista Home Premium Reinstallation DVD.It needs to be used in conjunction with the backup-cert.xrm-ms file and the...
View ArticleDell Windows Vista Ultimate backup-key.txt File
This is the Windows Vista Ultimate backup-key.txt obtained from the Dell Windows Vista Ultimate Reinstallation DVD.It needs to be used in conjunction with the backup-cert.xrm-ms file and the Activation...
View ArticleDell Windows Vista Ultimate backup-cert.xrm-ms File
This is the Windows Vista Ultimate backup-cert.xrm-ms obtained from the Dell Windows Vista Ultimate Reinstallation DVD.It needs to be used in conjunction with the backup-key.txt file and the Activation...
View Article"System Restore" is not on by default.
I have a new Dell desktop XPS 8500 and "System Restore" was not on by defualt.My Operating system is Windows 7 and it is installed on C:I had to manually turn "System Restore" on for C: and then create...
View ArticleHave an OptiPlex GX620 need to activate windows installed from Dell DVD
the system was given to me with XP Pro. I bought a dell recovery disk for win 7 and installed it. I am getting hassles from Microsoft saying we have illegal copy. I went to the MS site I used to...
View ArticleDell Windows 7 Starter backup-cert.xrm-ms File
This is the Windows 7 Starter backup-cert.xrm-ms obtained from the Dell Windows 7 Starter Reinstallation DVD.It needs to be used in conjunction with the backup-key.txt file and the Activation Backup...
View ArticleDell Windows 7 Starter backup-key.txt File
This is the Windows 7 Ultimate backup-key.txt obtained from the Dell Windows 7 Ultimate Reinstallation DVD.It needs to be used in conjunction with the backup-cert.xrm-ms file and the Activation Backup...
View ArticleDell Windows 7 Home Basic backup-key.txt File
This is the Windows 7 Starter backup-key.txt obtained from the Dell Windows 7 Starter DVD.It needs to be used in conjunction with the backup-cert.xrm-ms file and the Activation Backup and Recovery...
View ArticleDell Windows 7 Home Basic backup-cert.xrm-ms File
This is the Windows 7 Home Basic backup-cert.xrm-ms obtained from the Dell Windows 7 Home Basic Reinstallation DVD.It needs to be used in conjunction with the backup-key.txt file and the Activation...
View ArticleReinstalling Windows Vista help
Hello everybody. I am having a problem and hope I can get it resolved. I reinstalled Windows Vista Home Premium on my Dell Inspiron 530s. I manually reinstalled Vista with the DELL disc it came with....
View ArticleBlack screen when cold booting
I have an Inspiron N5110 that I was given to fix. When you boot the computer up cold the display doesn't turn on, No BIOS splash screen, just nothing. The computer keeps booting to Windows as I can...
View ArticleDell computer won't get passed the dell logo
Hello I have a dell 2305 all in one computer and it won't get passed the dell logo i tired F2,F12. Taking out all the wire holding the power for 15 seconds, the install cd didnt work. I opened it up...
View ArticleReplacing a Hard Drive without disks or backup
Hi All, In short I bought a xps l702x 18 months ago and it has recently started crashing. I ran all the diagnostics and got the classic errors indicating my hard drive is failing. So I need to replace...
View ArticleDell won't get passed its start up logo
Hello I have a dell 2305 all in one computer and it won't get passed the dell logo i tired F2,F12. Taking out all the wire holding the power for 15 seconds, the install cd didnt work. I opened it up...
View ArticleWindows 7 updates not installable
Hi,For the company, we have bought 2 vostro 470 desktops, which have been delivered this month.After startup and preparing for first use, windows 7 downloads and installs its updates.However, after a...
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