I dont know if reformatting is the solution. Dell computers have a bundle of restore disks (i think the last set I saw was about 7 disks) and you must use all 7 disks to reinstall windows and the drivers, and while doing so still installs all the other crap that dell sends.

The only way I can think of is if you have an independent, non-dell version of windows, you could then reformat, install just windows, and then DL the drivers either from the dell website, or the vendor website.

That was the one thing i liked about my gateway computer, the OS restore disk was just the OS and not all the bundle crap, they send 2 seperate disks of applications that you could install IF you wanted.