- I have a Dell Inspirion 600m laptop.
-My hard drive is dead.
-I had a restore (to factory settings) thing on my laptop, but since it's
not working now, i'm assuming it was part of my hard drive.
-I hate dealing with Dell support staff, because they don't speak good
English. Plus, Dell charges to use their no warranty staff support.
- I'm thinking a "restore disk" wouldn't work because I have bought a whole
new hard drive. There would be nothing to "restore."
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"xtremely poor w/ xtremely bad luck" wrote:

> My hard drive died (conveniently on the first day of summer school). My
> version of Windows XP SP2 came on my laptop. It's barely 2 years old. I have
> my product key, but I do not have a boot cd because, of course, none came
> with my laptop.
>
> I'm a poor college student; if it weren't for McDonald's Dollar Menu, I'd
> also be a starving. How can I install Windows XP again... (cost effectively)?
>