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I recently purchased a used Dell desktop pc which had XP Home installed (previously) and has a COA certificate for XP Home on the case. I have tried burning the following files to a cd but it will not boot. I used Nero to burn the disk.
OEM
Docs
DOTNETFX
I386
SUPPORT
VALUEADD
AUTORUN
README
SETUP
sq
WIN51
WIN51IC
WIN51IC.SP2
Would someone please help me? I know I must be doing something wrong but I am new to this and I am lost. The files were said to be Dell reinstall or recovery iso(?) but I am not even sure what that means. I have read many articles but most just confuse me more.
Please remember that I am a newbie in this situation and write with that in mind.
Thank you in advance for your help and consideration.
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Reinstalling Xp Home On A Dell Desktop making a boot disk
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Posted 11 December 2011 - 12:54 AM
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Posted 11 December 2011 - 07:34 AM
If you have the COA, then the best thing would be to find a copy of XP Home and use that disk to reinstall the OS. You will still need to go to the Dell site and get the drivers though.
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Gateway FX6800-01e----Intel Core i7 960 ( 3.2 GHz)---- Seagate Barracuda 750 Gb SATA II / 3.0 Hdd---- 6 Gb Crucial 1066 Mhz memory, running in Tri Channel conf-----Corsair TX650w PSU----- EVGA Nvidia GTX 560Ti 1gb GDDR5 Vram ----DVD +/- RW / CD ,RAM/DL Optical drive w/ Label Flash-----Gateway TBGM-01 Motherboard.... Vista Home Premium 64 bit OS w/ SP2; Samsung Synch Master 2243BWX 22" Monitor.
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