Removing Ubuntu and Installing Windows 1. Dell Inspiron 1. 5 3. Posted by newlife. Aug 3. 1, 2. 01. 5 in Windows 3. Found a great deal on a Dell Inspiron 1. OS installed on it. After turning on and seeing and Ubuntu sticker on it I knew. For me not an issue, but for the customer this was purchased for this was an issue, as they wanted Windows 1. No problem well just remove Ubuntu and install Windows which generally is not an issue. Well I should have not said a word as there was a few little glitches I had to work out first. First thing was to go into the BIOS and see what settings there was for boot and also UEFI as with the newer devices this can be an issue with discovering Legacy devices since I was using a USB attached DVD drive. So as I do with server builds I went into the BIOS, press F2 at boot up, and proceeded to set UEFI to Legacy. Hello, Here is a link to the driver download page for the Inspiron 3552. Windows 7 64bit for me but make sure it does the same for you. Learn how you can install Windows 7 using a USB 3. Stepbystep instructions for creating a customized bootable USB installer that works with USB 3. Dell electronics and accessories page has customer reviews, hot dealsoftheday and popular categories to help quickly locate the right products. In the BIOS navigate to the Boot tab and set the Boot List Option to Legacy. Save the changes F1. On reboot selected F1. DVD drive listed in Legay devices but I did see it in the UEFI device list. I selected the drive and the system rebooted and install did not start. Rebooted again and went back in the BIOS setup and checked several other options but all to no avail. One setting in the Boot section was Fast boot which is set to Enabled. Canon Lbp2900b Windows 7 Driver on this page. After a bit of digging found this setting can cause device detection issues with attached hardware ie DVD and USB devices. So I set this to Disabled and rebooted the system. One thing I noticed is the status bar took longer to run which is a good sign. After pressing F1. I now saw the DVD drive in the Legacy device list and upon selecting it I was sent ito the Windows 1. Still not out of the woods at this point. After selecting the Windows Upgrade option new install we next encountered the disk partitions. As in the past I know that Linux writes to the MBR Master Boot Record in such a way that a Windows installation will not detect it and Linux will display GRUB and try to load. Since this is a new installation of Windows and the customer has no desire to use the Dell system restore to put Ubuntu back on the best option is to delete all partitions on the system. Once the deletions are done just click next in the Windows installation and you are off to the races. While the installation is going on it is good togo to Dell support and download the bios updates and all the Windows 1. The drivers you will want are Intel Chipset drivers, all three that are available. Touchpad driver SynapticsSD Card driver. Install the Chipset drivers first and reboot. Should I remove IntelR USB 3. Xtensible Host Controller Driver by Intel eXtensible Host Controller Interface xHCI is a computer interface specification that. Found a great deal on a Dell Inspiron 15 3551 and forgot to look at the OS installed on it. After turning on and seeing and Ubuntu sticker on it I knew. USB 3. 0 is the third major version of the Universal Serial Bus USB standard for interfacing computers and electronic devices. Among other improvements, USB 3. Usb 3.0 Driver For Windows 7 Dell Inspiron' title='Usb 3.0 Driver For Windows 7 Dell Inspiron' />This will allow Windows to detect and install most of the devices it could not at install. Next install the SD card driver to finish out the ones it couldnt get. Next install the Touchpad driver and finally the BIOS update A0. Install the rest of the programs you normally use. Some of my standards are CCleaner. Discussion Thread Date Dell Computer 040DDP Windows 7 USB May 20, 2017 Dell Precision M90 laptop Windows 7 PCI ISA Apr 14, 2017 Dell Computer inspiron. Malware. Bytes. Microsoft Security Essentials Windows 1. Windows DefenderAdobe Reader. Adobe Flash. Microsoft Silverlight. Libre. Office 5. Now that we have a running system it was time to go back and set the fast boot option back to Enabled to allow the system to boot fast again. Reboot and select F2 and navigate to the Boot tab and change Fast Boot to Enabled. Supernatural Series 4. Press F1. 0 to save and reboot. Thats all there was to it and I had a working Windows 1.