Can anybody help me?

[thranx]

*Sound Of Rain said:

thranx said:

what did your computer come with? Did it have a disc that was for reinstalling windows? Did it come with a repair partition that you can activate to install windows? Alot of newer computers dont come with a disk but instead have a repair partition. You may have deleted that though too.  But that is ok. Look on your tower for a shiny sticker that ways windows and has a code on it. as long as you have that you are good to go. You can use any windows disc (of the same verison so if you had pro use pro, basic use basic, etc) and use that code to activate it.

 

EDIT: did some more research, if this guy is correct than your pc came with a windows 7 disc for repair and reisntall, it should have your drivers on there too, and maybe some programs that came preloaded if your lucky. He list how to do it and some of the drivers so read over his post and if you still have questions let me know.

 

http://www.alienwarearena.com/forums/topic/14061/hardware/hidi-5-alienware-x51-clean-windows-7-installation/

Cool, that should help a lot too. will I have to repay for things like Microsoft Word, Excel, or the anti-virus?

it all depends on what they have put on your windows disc. Usually if the computer came with those programs than they will have them on the install disc too. But not allways. I would think dell (alienware) would have them on the disc though.