Lost my dell Windows Recovery CD

abbas5001

Hey all,

I wanna reformat my drive but i moved house recently and i seem to have misplaced my Dell 'Reinstalling Windows XP' disc. I can't find it anywhere, i've been on the dell site and forums and found a form to order new backup disc (free may i add) but its for the USA and nothing on the Uk site.

Anyone got any ideas on what i should do?

albertross_2

Call them and ask for one, or you may have a recovery partition on the hard disk

abbas5001

albertross wrote: »

Call them and ask for one, or you may have a recovery partition on the hard disk

I;m going to try and just call them. I don't have a partition on the hard disk unfortunately, the last time i wiped the drive when i deleted it as i wanted a clean install.

computerwoman

Hi is it xp home or professional....as I may be able to help...:D

abbas5001

computerwoman wrote: »

Hi is it xp home or professional....as I may be able to help...:D

Yeah its XP home thanks

computerwoman

abbas5001 wrote: »

Yeah its XP home thanks

I have an xp professional that I no longer need...you could have had it it's a dell recovery disc...but no product key...but I could send you a legal copy of my xp home as I can do 1 legal back-up of it...free of course...if that's any good just PM me your detail's and I will put it in the post asap....if that would help...:Dit's an OEM version...

k9387

Just phone Dell, they may well try and charge you £10 for it though if you stand up to them they will back down, know many many people who have donw this...

Seagull

You can download the Dell XP installation CD through Bittorrent for free, you shouldn't need a serial number to install (I didn't when I had the same problem as you).

I have a Dell CD and can copy/post to you if needed.