How would I go about starting over on my computer?

Question

I need to wipe out my Dell laptop and don't have the windows 2000 disc to reinstall, What do I do?

Answer 1

Do you have recovery CD's of any kind? You may be able to buy copies from Dell. Either that of buy a Windows 2K or WinXP CD and have at it.

You may need to enlist some help from a technician if you load the bare operating system, Windows might not have drivers for all the devices in your computer.

Answer 2

You could [a] buy a new Windows XP or [b] download a free distro of Linux like Ubuntu or Mandriva ... and install it on your laptop.

Windows will not give a free replacement for your Windows 2000 disc and there's no free download of any Windows OS at all.

You can download "live CD" versions of Linux from Ubuntu and Mandriva which you can directly run from the CD instead of installing it on the laptop by burning the downloaded iso image directly onto a blank CD and making it a bootable CD.

Check out http://www.ubuntu.com/download

Also see http://www.mandriva.com/download

Linux is a robust OS which is known to have far less bugs and viruses and you can get Avast AntiVirus for Linux to complete your protection from http://www.avast.com/eng/avast-for-linux-workstation.html

Again, like most things with Linux, it's free!

Hope this helps.

All the best.

Cheers

Answer 3

give a call to dell and see if they can send you a recovery cd. They usually do, if you say you never receive one. You will need a OS in order to reinstall windows.

Answer 4

If you want to have Windows 2000, you would either have to leave it how it is or buy a new CD. (Sorry, it is expensive...) If you want linux, a good choice it http://ubuntu.com/ . If you want to format your hard drive (wipe it clean) right click on it and click format, then follow the instructions.

Answer 5

you buy windows windows 2000 disc
and you put it in the cd drive & you can format the pc and set up windows 2000 from the cd

Answer 6

Get a new computer...Simple solution.