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About 4 weeks ago, something happened to my Dell 8100 that made me believe my only recourse was a complete re-install of all of my software. This system came with Win 2000 Professional and I was offered and accepted the XP upgrade, which when I installed it almost 2 years ago it worked fine. With my first and 2nd and 3rd subsequent re-installs trying to add XP to Win 2K Professional has resulted in my loosing all dial up possibilities only options were broadband which I don't have. Although the re-installs and repeated downloads of updates have taken around 75 hours by this time, I thought I'd try again. This time my Dell re-install W2K disk kept coming up NT Detect Failed, I guess the XP version would not read this disk or maybe I re-installed too many times, I don't know, have no formal computer training whatsoever so by this time I am at my wits ends trying to get back online. I leased my computer over 3 years ago for my now closed business, but I use it daily for news, banking, paying bills, email, etc. In a last ditch effort to get it running again, I accepted a friends offer to borrow an evalustion version disk of Win2K to try. This install was successful however now I have added to my problems. I am running an evaluation version of Win2K, the system still will not accept my Dell re-install disk, keeps coming up NT DETECT Failed. I did manage to contact Dell who pointed me to instructions on fixing my dial-up problem but how do I remove this evaluation version of Win2K put back my Dell software and upgrade back to XP, without shipping my system to Dell?????? HELP!!!!!!