Totally NFRC Computer hard-drive question

Is that $110 for the hd and the operating system installed out the door?

Or just XP. Also is it XP pro or home edition, you likely only need the home edition which costs less.

The thing is it is actually pretty easy, and you can swap them if someone *hadn't* wiped the drive completely removing the OS - for someone who does this every day. Because it would still need the driver tweaks/etc unless it was the same exactly model/make as yours. The reason it takes me awhile is that I forget and have to look up how to do this when the time comes, so takes me longer.

I don't understand why they can't load Win7, though. Even if the reason was an XP lic you can always upgrade. BTW, if you know someone who is a student they can buy MS SW (incl Windows) at a considerable discount via MS online or sometimes at the student store.

Hopefully this guy on CL works out.

 
No, it would've been just that amount to

reload WinXP onto my new hdd from their disk. Nothing purchased, since I had WinXP already, even though it didn't work.

And then an additional $149 for the new hdd. I don't care about a new hdd, because most likely I'll be getting a new laptop with Win7 on it sometime in the future. I just wanted my old one working again as a stop-gap.

Incidentally, when the CL guy installed the new hdd, it didn't ask for anything accept for him to install WinXP. No drivers, nothing complicated, although it did take about an hour for everything to get back "in there". I roughly understood, but it was well worth the $20 it cost for him to do it instead of me doing it.

 
Glad the CL gy worked out...

The additional drivers are to get other devices to work, like your printer and wifi router...so everything talks to each other, those will be included in the install/set-up disks you have for those. Some drivers are also needed to run built-in devices - say a built-in dvd player. If you have built-in things like that, and they don't work, that will be why. Again they are easy fixes now that you've got an OS again. You can download them from Dell's site by entering you make/model/OS.

All companies update drivers so it's good to check/download driver updates to all your devices as part of maintaining your computer.

 
Thanks but no drivers were needed - I watched him do it. Everything works.

But good to know about the updates in case I ever need them for some reason.

 
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