I have a DELL 1720 which is brand new at hand.
The use took a wrong turn on Myspace, loaded something that nuked explorer.exe.
Unable to keystroke to rollback. Norton Security was present and worthless - as I usually remove and install the free one - she didn't and has me working on it now.
Steps that yield the failure:
Proceeded to use the 3 disc.
1. Install disc
2. OS Disc
3. Driver Disc
all present and accounted for.
The instructions state; First the Install disc, which really just nukes the hardware footprint, sets up the partitions for DELL direct etc. and then tells you to install off the OS disc.(Correctly using the other partion)
Install from the OS disc goes on easy, even selection of location is there, allows you to select the correct 71.#GB (#= and change) partiton.
It then goes farther allowing you to select English etc.. that sorta junk.
It copies files, installs items, hardware ect...
At the last step, "Completing Installation..." it just really hangs there. The lower green slider doesn't really move (I put a peice of tape on the screen to verify) and the 3 little periods are all that seem to be moving - that and the mouse is free to move about.
SATA Maybe????
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Side deployment:
I tried the trusty WindowsXP CD and of course, there isn't a hard drive - Again, no SATA driver. go figure... (SlipStreme Project will resume next week to correct that issue.)
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Anyway, I don't know what SATA driver the beast uses so I will have to go dig and build some mockup deployment and get ready to see if I can load them during the install.
I did find where in Vistas load-out to have it prompt me.
Any feedback on what drives to go get would be really helpful.
I'll post back the info to ensure that I get the system up and running.
NOTE>

I saw one person just say, Ask D(h)ELL for the Recovery CDs... Question there I have is, why isn't that in the box when you buy it and, whats the use of the OS and Driver BS disc... he he he... sorta a waste of DELL money sending us targets or wind-chime dongles...
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UPDATE: Bad Disc.. OS disc had a problem..
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