It came with your 8250, probably red colored. It says windows recovery cd.

ok

but wat does this recovery disc look like? i dont think i got one.  I have a dimension 8250 btw

Message Edited by systmkkd844 on 02-21-2004 10:38 AM

Put your recovery cd in and restart the computer. When it restarts it will ask if you want to format when you install windows.

well i did get a redish colored cd but its the xp installation disc is that the one ur talking about?

well wat u said would come up didn't.  but i have a new question.  How do i use this boot floppy disk that i made?  I put it in and restart and then i'm supposed to boot from the floppy right?  And then what?   Also what would happen if i opened a command prompt and typed "FORMAT C:" ??

would this just screw everything up?      thnx

systmkkd844.

You partition and format the hard disk C : as part of reinstalling XP.   The following document has instructions for the XP reinstall and paragraphs 5-11 has the details for partitioning and formatting.

http://support.dell.com/us/en/kb/document_print.asp?DN=RG1060556

Prior to reinstalling, make the CD/ROM the first boot device and remember to disconnect all external peripherals
from the computer, except the keyboard and mouse.
The following article, is how to configure a Dimension series system to boot to the CD/DVD drive.

http://support.dell.com/us/en/kb/document_print.asp?DN=TT1032262

Bev.

thanks everyone for your time and effort but dell chat helped me. Thanks again.