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AlleyCat · 04-08-2009, 05:25 PM

My new roommate's computer is so virus-infected and messed up that I'm going to re-write the hard drive for him. He, however, lost all the original CDs that came with his Dell computer. I own a Dell laptop - and we think his computer and my old laptop are roughly the same age - about 4 years old. Is it feasible to think I could use my basic install CD from my Dell laptop to rewrite his Dell computer hard drive? I know there would be drivers missing, etc., like for his monitor, and I can address those later (like download drivers, etc. off my new computer and bring those over to his computer?) Is there a better solution than what I'm thinking of?

04-08-2009, 05:25 PM	#1 (permalink)
AlleyCat Registered User Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: In my time zone Posts: 10,788	Re-writing a hard drive without the original OEM CDs My new roommate's computer is so virus-infected and messed up that I'm going to re-write the hard drive for him. He, however, lost all the original CDs that came with his Dell computer. I own a Dell laptop - and we think his computer and my old laptop are roughly the same age - about 4 years old. Is it feasible to think I could use my basic install CD from my Dell laptop to rewrite his Dell computer hard drive? I know there would be drivers missing, etc., like for his monitor, and I can address those later (like download drivers, etc. off my new computer and bring those over to his computer?) Is there a better solution than what I'm thinking of?