Since you stay in the UK you should probably call the expired warranty services: 0844 338 1000 you may or may not be charged for the recovery CDs. Otherwise eBay.co.uk will probably be the easiest place to get them. I assume you are running XP Home Edition but you should check with the COA on the base of your laptop. • XP Home Edition with SP3 - £26, should ask if you can get the CD without the COA for cheaper. • XP Professional - should email the seller they call it XP Professional in the title but say you need an XP Home COA in the description. Alternatively if you have a friend with a Dell XP Home CD, you may copy it and update it to SP3 using nlite as instructed here. Just ensure the CD used is a Dell XP Reinstallation CD of the same version of your COA. Once you have the CD follow the instructions here.
Hi, I seem to be going around in circles trying to get an answer....... Does anyone know how to obtain the XP operating installation CD for a Dell  Inspiron 6000 laptop? The laptop was shipped 'without discs'..... meaning that you rely on Dell factory restore....the thing is I might need to do a totally clean install.......   :emotion-7:
No OS XP CD