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Originally Posted by coonsanders
hi
ill probably end up buying the windows 7 oem disk and let that fix the hard drive..i havent bought it yet but i may have too..thanks
lenny
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I'm not sure why you would want to waste the money when you technically already own a license of windows (other than upgrading to a better version) The only benefit that you would get is none of the bloatware that comes with a store bought/company made machine. Which you can get rid of immediately after reformatting easily. If you were to buy OEM, then you would have to manually download and install all of the drivers that Dell has already given you. If you do want a better version of windows but don't want this driver mess do the factory restore and buy your better version of windows then use the "Upgrade Anytime" feature from windows (see
here for more info). This will rid yourself of driver problems and as I said before, the bloatware can easily be uninstalled after the reformat.