Formatting my laptop.....

chili · 23 Nov 2011 at 21:55

My question is if and when i format my laptop will i run into any driver problems?
i don't need to format yet, however one day soon i probably will, having never owned a laptop before am just looking to make the process as painless as possible. my laptop is an alienware m17x r3, i have plenty experience in building and formatting desktop pc's, i have also formatted my wifes pc that went fine, however i do not want to bugger up my laptop

i am downloading all the drivers from dell's site via using my tag number, i am obtaining a matching version of the o/s so i can use the valid serial from the base. is there anything else i need to do?

many thanks

andy_mk3 · 24 Nov 2011 at 00:34

Everything should be on the Dell website, just stick the service tag in and boom it's all there

N$X · 24 Nov 2011 at 00:58

besides the option andy mk3 suggested, didn't it come with a restore disk? i thought normally dell keep a factory backup of the data on drive d?

chili · 24 Nov 2011 at 14:13

it does indeed but i will be installing a new bigger ssd soon and am going down the clean install road

Threepwood · 24 Nov 2011 at 14:21

Cant think of anything else, that's all I did when adding an SSD and to my m15x anyway.