Re: OEM Reinstall

An OEM "recovery" disk will only do a "recovery" installation. Now if you
had an OEM operating system disk, as opposed to a recovery disk, you'd be in
business.

"Dapper Dan" <dapperdan@xxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:uBSfchzDGHA.2040@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Just a short note to advise others who plan on doing what I had intended,
> and that is, that I did a reinstall of an OEM 'puter but did not achieve
> either of my objectives, ie reduce bloatware and repartition a very large
> C drive.
>
> I did a complete recovery, including a format of the drive. I did not have
> an option to refuse the reinstallation of any of the programs/utilities. I
> have subsequently uninstalled all that I wasn't interested in that were
> located in Add/Remove. However what's the best way to rid myself of other
> programs/utilities that were not included in Add/Remove but which are
> located in my Program files (ie AOL/ Internet Signups/HP Extentended
> Service Plans etc). Is it simply deleting any given folder or is there a
> better approach?
>
> And of course Carey was right with respect to partitioning. Again, I did
> not get the option of setting any partition; I was forced to use whatever
> way it was originally setup. Thus I will have to accomplish that objective
> with the purchase of a partitioning utility.
>
> In any event, I wanted to provide this feedback for anyone contemplating a
> similar intention.
>


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