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Mar 15, 2009 | 06:46 AM

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sids1045

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From: Stoneham MA

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Originally Posted by PacificDude

Format?! I would if I had a CD. I got a legit key that came w/ the system, but no CD. If I'm going to go through the trouble...

Is there a folder called i386 somewhere on the C: drive? If so, that should be an image of the Windows CD. Burn it to a CD and use that to format and re-install.

Mar 15, 2009 | 12:48 PM

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PacificDude

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Originally Posted by sids1045

Is there a folder called i386 somewhere on the C: drive? If so, that should be an image of the Windows CD. Burn it to a CD and use that to format and re-install.

There's like 20 of those folders. Which is the right one?

Mar 15, 2009 | 01:06 PM

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Misa

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From: NJ

c:\i386

just copying it to a cd wont make it bootable. you'll need a program like nlite to do so.

Mar 15, 2009 | 02:38 PM

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Black2KGSR

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you probably have a recovery partition on your HDD....and sometimes there's a way to make a recovery CD (on Dell's there is). You can use that to reformat.

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