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Windows 7 and Dell MediaDirect
I currently have Vista 32-Bit Home Premium and wish to perform a clean install of Windows 7 32-Bit Home Premium. I have a few questions:
1) Can I perform a clean install from boot-up?
2) What is the recommended install if I'm stuck currently with Dell MediaDirect 3.0 ? I have heard LOTS of issues from some who attempt to delete all of the partitions and then accidentally press the MediaDirect buttom (looks like a house) next to the power button. I've never used MediaDirect so I don't care if it doesn't work in Windows 7. However I have heard if you wipe out all partitions and do a clean install of Windows 7 and accidentally press the MediaDirect button at some later time, MediaDirect on some "hidden" partition will create a new partition on top of the partition Windows 7 was installed to. Anyways what are my options? Should I just leave my partitions as they are (I have four of them -- C: D:RECOVERY and two other partitions which I believe are the MediaDirect partition and a disk utilities partition
3) After I install Windows 7 (clean install) can I just go to Windows Update to get all my drivers? Or should I install them from the CD first?
I currently am running Windows Vista 32-Bit on a Dell E1705 laptop with 2 GB ram.
Thanks !!