Reinstall Windows on Dell Inspiron

[Mr Technician]

I just received my new dell laptop in the mail today, booted it up, and promptly realized how much bloatware Dell has included. I'd like to reinstall Windows 10 but don't want to mess with the warranty. In the windows installer, I see a number of partitions including one called "Image" and another "DELLSUPPORT" and so on. Can I safely delete these without losing the hardware warranty? I'm no stranger to windows 10 installs but 99% of the time it's on a new machine or in a VM, and I'm not used to OEM machines and I don't want to void my warranty.

[vanished]

You would have to read the warranty terms that came with the machine to be certain.  However, without knowing them and just going by what I would expect, you should be fine.  They would have to be colossal asses to void it just because you changed some software.  Any competent company and professional understands the very real distinction between hardware and software, and what "damage" to either entails for the other (ie, nothing).

[Super Spartan]

4 hours ago, ThatFlashCat said:

I just received my new dell laptop in the mail today, booted it up, and promptly realized how much bloatware Dell has included. I'd like to reinstall Windows 10 but don't want to mess with the warranty. In the windows installer, I see a number of partitions including one called "Image" and another "DELLSUPPORT" and so on. Can I safely delete these without losing the hardware warranty? I'm no stranger to windows 10 installs but 99% of the time it's on a new machine or in a VM, and I'm not used to OEM machines and I don't want to void my warranty.

I've clean installed every laptop I purchased and just to be specific to your question, no it doesn't have anything to do with Warrantyl As long as you don't physically damage your laptop if you open it up then your warranty is intact. Loading your own OS is your choice.

 

Here's my clean install guide of Windows 10 if you wanna have a look and yes you wanna delete all the partitions using the diskpart /clean command as outlined in the guide: Windows 10 Clean Installation Guide

[Mr Technician]

22 minutes ago, Ultra Male said:

I've clean installed every laptop I purchased and just to be specific to your question, no it doesn't have anything to do with Warrantyl As long as you don't physically damage your laptop if you open it up then your warranty is intact. Loading your own OS is your choice.

 

Here's my clean install guide of Windows 10 if you wanna have a look and yes you wanna delete all the partitions using the diskpart /clean command as outlined in the guide: Windows 10 Clean Installation Guide

Thanks, but I've got the install process down already.  I already had a USB drive ready to go with windows 10 on it too.

[Super Spartan]

4 hours ago, ThatFlashCat said:

Thanks, but I've got the install process down already.  I already had a USB drive ready to go with windows 10 on it too.

Perfect, then you're good to go

 

I wouldn't install Dell SupportAssist on my laptop if I were you.

[Mr Technician]

On 10/17/2019 at 3:14 AM, Ultra Male said:

Perfect, then you're good to go

 

I wouldn't install Dell SupportAssist on my laptop if I were you.

I've installed nothing aside from the usual (chrome, office, etc.). My previous laptop had the worthless hp "support" assistant until I did a full reinstall.