New Dell Inspiron E1505 Quick and Dirty

kramer7 · 1st July 2006, 10:43 PM

Two days old, Core Duo 2 Ghz, 1gb ram, 100GB Hd, 945 video suits me, XP MCE, Very pleased with it, Software is hugely crapped up with all kinds of bloat. Still finding stuff I want to remove. Ghost 10 which come as a 90 day trial w/n function because there were partitions added apparently just to mess with the "Unavailable MBR slot" message, I didn't care for the way the had the 100 gb partitioned any way, + I got the os install dvd as part of the package. Put in my partition Magic cd, Nuked partition 4, formatted partition and combined with partition 5, then combined with 3, then resized three to 60GB, which leaves the partition 1 as the 40something MB Dell, then C drive as partition 2, then 3 for my stuff. The McAfee trial is a huge @#$%^ to remove, finally resorted to safe mode, then used old stashed version of JV16 to finally get rid of all of it. The display is awesome LCD ultrasharp, 1680 x 1050 is almost overkill. Pleased with the mediacenter part too, Paid US$ 986.

copious · 2nd July 2006, 7:12 AM

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Originally Posted by kramer7

Two days old, Core Duo 2 Ghz, 1gb ram, 100GB Hd, 945 video suits me, XP MCE, Very pleased with it, Software is hugely crapped up with all kinds of bloat. Still finding stuff I want to remove. Ghost 10 which come as a 90 day trial w/n function because there were partitions added apparently just to mess with the "Unavailable MBR slot" message, I didn't care for the way the had the 100 gb partitioned any way, + I got the os install dvd as part of the package. Put in my partition Magic cd, Nuked partition 4, formatted partition and combined with partition 5, then combined with 3, then resized three to 60GB, which leaves the partition 1 as the 40something MB Dell, then C drive as partition 2, then 3 for my stuff. The McAfee trial is a huge @#$%^ to remove, finally resorted to safe mode, then used old stashed version of JV16 to finally get rid of all of it. The display is awesome LCD ultrasharp, 1680 x 1050 is almost overkill. Pleased with the mediacenter part too, Paid US$ 986.

err cool mate

Varuna · 2nd July 2006, 1:04 PM

Yeah, bit random. Glad you're happy with your machine, next time use a u0085 once in a while.

_the_duke_ · 2nd July 2006, 4:24 PM

Can this thread be deleted? I don't want anyone else to waste a minute of their life reading the original post.

1st July 2006, 10:43 PM	#1
kramer7 Member Join Date: Nov 2002 Posts: 70	New Dell Inspiron E1505 Quick and Dirty Two days old, Core Duo 2 Ghz, 1gb ram, 100GB Hd, 945 video suits me, XP MCE, Very pleased with it, Software is hugely crapped up with all kinds of bloat. Still finding stuff I want to remove. Ghost 10 which come as a 90 day trial w/n function because there were partitions added apparently just to mess with the "Unavailable MBR slot" message, I didn't care for the way the had the 100 gb partitioned any way, + I got the os install dvd as part of the package. Put in my partition Magic cd, Nuked partition 4, formatted partition and combined with partition 5, then combined with 3, then resized three to 60GB, which leaves the partition 1 as the 40something MB Dell, then C drive as partition 2, then 3 for my stuff. The McAfee trial is a huge @#$%^ to remove, finally resorted to safe mode, then used old stashed version of JV16 to finally get rid of all of it. The display is awesome LCD ultrasharp, 1680 x 1050 is almost overkill. Pleased with the mediacenter part too, Paid US$ 986.

2nd July 2006, 1:04 PM	#3
Varuna Member Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Sydneys Northern Beaches. Posts: 1,050	Yeah, bit random. Glad you're happy with your machine, next time use a u0085 once in a while. __________________ If all else fails, immortality can always be assured by spectacular error.

2nd July 2006, 4:24 PM	#4
_the_duke_ Member Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Adelaide, SA Posts: 3,992	Can this thread be deleted? I don't want anyone else to waste a minute of their life reading the original post. __________________ Do you see the way that tree bends?