Dell £339 Laptop 15.4" widescreen, wireless, DVDRW (NOW GONE - that's all folks!)

Northtim

Received ok here!

Looks good - just got it hooked up to home wireless network and now trying to get all that crap removed dell have stuck on it!

Ally

it's got a padlock, but i do not like they idea of being able to see her full name (as she has written it, and what she calls her PC LOL) ... if I can see her's .... the she and others can see mine!

Anyway, am typing from my Lappy now and trying to get used to the KB LOL!! hmmm, gonna have to practise A LOT!!

Kilty_2

Just bought one of those Antler bags from PC World - £24.99.

Lovely piece of kit, only complaint I have about it is that I can fit the charging brick in but not the mains plug that comes with it.

Still would reccomend it to any of you that have bought the Inspiron.

Northtim

All up and running here with the extra memory fitted seems very good.

One panic when kept getting asked for a cd for sonic update. If you get that go to the troubleshooting part of dell support website and there is a little hotfix to download.

Only thing is, as Browntoa said on another thread, no longer seems to be an option to burn a restore disk? No good at reading manuals so if someone else has found how to do this please let me know!

Guess I better hand this over to the wife now as it is meant to be hers!

Browntoa

that poxy message !!

did'nt know there was a fix on the site...

I did a restore on mine to get it working

Searcher

Northtim wrote:

All up and running here with the extra memory fitted seems very good.

One panic when kept getting asked for a cd for sonic update. If you get that go to the troubleshooting part of dell support website and there is a little hotfix to download.

Only thing is, as Browntoa said on another thread, no longer seems to be an option to burn a restore disk? No good at reading manuals so if someone else has found how to do this please let me know!

Guess I better hand this over to the wife now as it is meant to be hers!

You can burn the restore disk directly from the image which you can find at C:\dell\MEDIAEXE\Media.iso
I'm not sure if the sonic software will burn images or not as I uninstalled it pretty much straight away and installed Nero, but if you do a Google search there are plenty of free utilities that will let you burn/ extract an iso image
HTH

Browntoa

not on this new batch of 1300's

just looked

Northtim

Yeah - no sign of the restore disk/image.

However there must be a hidden partition as the hdd size is only showing as approx 36gb. Think the files are probably in there?

Thanks for pointing out what the sonic files are - didn't realise they were burning software! Will do as you and install nero instead.

Kilty_2

Yeah there is no CD burning option on my 1300, although the bloody Sonic Activation thing does keep asking for a disk on startup (End Tasking it for now makes it go away, until i can be bothered turning off the two programs responsible for it.

Kilty_2

Northtim wrote:

Yeah - no sign of the restore disk/image.

However there must be a hidden partition as the hdd size is only showing as approx 36gb. Think the files are probably in there?

Thanks for pointing out what the sonic files are - didn't realise they were burning software! Will do as you and install nero instead.

I believe the 4GB is used for the Symantec Restore thing, that you can get at startup by pressing ctrl and F11, for reverting to factory install.