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Dannykgb
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_ 		9. May 2009 @ 19:30 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Ok ive searched this forum and found good helpful information on reformatting my dell computer with windows XP, but I rebooted, went to the boot menu with f12, and it turns out I have a SATA Hardrive. All advice found on this forum states I need to load the drivers from the manufacturer's CD onto a floppy disk and use it while reformatting. Now I have two problems with this step.

1) To my knowledge Dell never gave me a motherboard CD with the necessary drivers.

2) My computer does NOT have a floppy disk drive.

Now is there a way to reformat without the drivers on a CD and without a floppy drive to load them? I hope so...

Of course any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks guys.

(i know this is a repost but i didnt know hich forum to put it in)
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dailun
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_ 		10. May 2009 @ 00:56 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
The XP installation disk should contain all of the drivers necessary to get the basic XP installation running.

The only driver that you may need to manually install after the intialization is the Ethernet driver to get Ethernet connectivity, then you can use the service tag to install the rest of the drivers.

Alternately, you can do what I had to do for my ex-wife who blew up her sister's Dell PC.

1. Get the service Tag number
2. Take the service tag number and a USB memory stick (1GB will do) to a Kinko's or Internet cafe
3. D/L all of the drivers to the memory stick from the Dell website using the service tag number.
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_ 		10. May 2009 @ 14:20 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
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