There is no "restore disc".  You have to manually install with a Windows disc and drivers. If you are in the US and the registered with Dell owner and meet the other requirements you can request a set of "backup" discs  HERE.    Otherwise if this is a used PC you bought you will just have to buy a "retail" Windows XP disc somewhere.  You can download whatever drivers you need from the Dell downloads at  www.support.dell.com   You need the Dell drivers for most devices because of the Dell proprietary motherboards. There is a specific manual install sequence required.  Dell manual install procedure
Have a used 8600 with blue screen errors and no restore disk older 8600 so no sysmtec restore partition available. Question is their a restore/recovery disk .that dell has? if so please guide me in the right direction.
Inspiron 8600 needed xp o/s restore disk