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Will installing linux on a brand new dell Laptop void the warranty?

Posted on August 5, 2010 by admin| 4 Comments

I plan on purchasing a dell inspiron 1525 and want to put fedora 9 on it. I have a live cd for fedora. I want to know what the best way to remove the windows OS without removing any of the drivers I might need to run the laptop (ie. keyboard, disk drive and any other if they exist) and if by doing this I void the warranty. Im pretty sure that im not voiding the warranty because the warrentys general cover hardware issuese not software right? I don’t have this laptop in my possesion at this time.

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Reinstall Windows on new Dell laptop harddrive.?

Posted on July 9, 2010 by admin| 1 Comment

The hard drive in my Dell laptop just died and I bought and installed a new one. It’s completely fresh (i.e. no boot sector).

The problem is I *don’t* have a Windows CD. The dead disk had a recovery partition with a Windows installer, but obviously I can’t access that.

What options do I have? The laptop came with Windows so by rights I’ve paid for it. I have a product key, just no installation media.

At the moment I’m considering burning a live Linux CD just to get the hard drive set up, then finding a version of Windows somewhere. But I want to install it legitimately, because it’s something I’ve already paid for.

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