lost recovery disk

**operationgetbig** · 02-20-2010, 04:15 PM

lost my recovery disk for my dell latitude d610. on the bottom of the laptop i have my windows xp professional serial number. is there anyway i can do a clean install without the recovery disk?

**BJJ** · 02-20-2010, 04:32 PM

Originally Posted by operation******

lost my recovery disk for my dell latitude d610. on the bottom of the laptop i have my windows xp professional serial number. is there anyway i can do a clean install without the recovery disk?

Yes, ask Dell to send you via mail a copy of your recovery disk.

**Bryan2** · 02-20-2010, 06:16 PM

they will charge you around 25 bucks tho

If you are familiar with torrents then just download a copy and burn it to a cd

the product key on the bottom is what you really need

But keep in mind it will only be windows,

You need another computer with working internet to get your drivers(software that controls things like internet,sound and whatnot)

You can download those from dells website tho

**operationgetbig** · 02-20-2010, 08:17 PM

Originally Posted by Bryan2

they will charge you around 25 bucks tho

If you are familiar with torrents then just download a copy and burn it to a cd

the product key on the bottom is what you really need

But keep in mind it will only be windows,

You need another computer with working internet to get your drivers(software that controls things like internet,sound and whatnot)

You can download those from dells website tho

i just contacted dell and they're sending me a windows install disk for like 10 bucks plus shipping. about 15 bucks total. they also sent me a link with all the drivers i need to install too. i prolly could've easily went with a torrent but since it wasnt that expensive i just went directly through dell.

**DSM4Life** · 02-20-2010, 09:17 PM

Are you sure the recovery isn't on another partition ? Its very rare these days to get a recovery disk on a current PC.

**BJJ** · 02-21-2010, 03:44 AM

Originally Posted by operation******

i just contacted dell and they're sending me a windows install disk for like 10 bucks plus shipping. about 15 bucks total. they also sent me a link with all the drivers i need to install too. i prolly could've easily went with a torrent but since it wasnt that expensive i just went directly through dell.

Way to go!