Hi,

We have a Dell Optiplex that's been upgraded to Windows
2000. I do not have any of the CDs unfortunately and we
are now experiencing a main hard drive failure. We can't
boot the PC, pressing F8 does not bring it up in safe mode.

Can any of you gurus tell me how I can boot this thing up,
or where I can find/download a system recovery cd/disk?

Pease respond directly to (E-Mail Removed)

Thanks,
Peter

If the drive has failed you'll simply need to reinstall the operating system
after you have replaced the failed hardware.

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"Pete Zierz" wrote:
| Hi,
|
| We have a Dell Optiplex that's been upgraded to Windows
| 2000. I do not have any of the CDs unfortunately and we
| are now experiencing a main hard drive failure. We can't
| boot the PC, pressing F8 does not bring it up in safe mode.
|
| Can any of you gurus tell me how I can boot this thing up,
| or where I can find/download a system recovery cd/disk?
|
| Pease respond directly to (E-Mail Removed)
|
| Thanks,
| Peter

Pete - that's not nearly enough useful info. What does "main hard drive
failure" mean? Depending on the answer you may have an easy fix or a
piece of dead metal.

Pete Zierz wrote:

> Hi,
>
> We have a Dell Optiplex that's been upgraded to Windows
> 2000. I do not have any of the CDs unfortunately and we
> are now experiencing a main hard drive failure. We can't
> boot the PC, pressing F8 does not bring it up in safe mode.
>
> Can any of you gurus tell me how I can boot this thing up,
> or where I can find/download a system recovery cd/disk?
>
> Pease respond directly to (E-Mail Removed)
>
> Thanks,
> Peter

How to Replace Lost, Broken, or Missing Microsoft Software or Hardware
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;[ln];326246

Pete Zierz wrote:

> Hi,
>
> We have a Dell Optiplex that's been upgraded to Windows
> 2000. I do not have any of the CDs unfortunately and we
> are now experiencing a main hard drive failure. We can't
> boot the PC, pressing F8 does not bring it up in safe mode.
>
> Can any of you gurus tell me how I can boot this thing up,
> or where I can find/download a system recovery cd/disk?
>
> Pease respond directly to (E-Mail Removed)
>
> Thanks,
> Peter
>