I have a dell 2350 with windows xp professional 1-2cpu what new do i by to re load it the same . peter PS have lost the lot so have to by a new windows

You may not have the Dell PD Restore by Symantec utility on your 2350, this is install on Dimension systems shipped after 7.16.04.

An other way to tell, is to check Disk Management and see if there's a small 2.5 to 4gb second partition on the hard drive.

If you do have the small partition try this, it may work,

http://support.dell.com/support/topics/global.aspx/support/kcs/document?c=us&l=en&s=gen&docid=DSN_3E48AE3870775D64E040A68F5B2877D4&isLegacy=true

Go to Dell . com they have the solution there.

You will have to go to the Dell site and at least get the network driver and put on a jump drive but it will have to be an old jump drive because the 2350 may not recognize some of the newer jump drives that have security features (I know that is a pain!) What I do is download the whole lot and burn them on a CD. JC

Check the jumper on the back of your drive. Chances are that the jumper is either on "slave" or "cable select". Change the jumper to master, and try rebooting.

go and reinstall ur audio driver to solve ur problem or get ur Xp reinstalled to solve the problem
or it is not a s/w problem its a hardware problem then show it to a professional

then open control panel
add new hardware click yes or next scroll down to network hit next or yes
then first try with automatically detect
then restart pc when it's done
do you know your exact ethernet driver
do you have a internet icon in your taskbar

Go to this Dell link and download the Audio driver:

http://support.dell.com/support/downloads/driverslist.aspx?c=us&l=en&s=gen&ServiceTag=&SystemID=DIM_PNT_CEL_2350&os=WW1&osl=en&catid=&impid=


You may have to copy and paste the link into your browser.
If I could be of further assistance, let me know. If this helps or solves the issue, please rate it.
Thanks, Joe


I’m happy to assist further over the phone at https://www.6ya.com/expert/joe_8b8c2cd6ce148309

Not a lot of details, but here is some basic information, assuming you have a Dell with Integrated RAID

Dimension 9150/9200 and XPS systems have RAID, depending on the model the exact troubleshooting differs. At boot, after the Dell screen, you should get the RAID status listing. RAID 0 will either be normal or failed. Raid 1 can be normal, degraded for failed.

If the RAID array was RAID 0 and one of the drives failed, then all data is lost and you'll have to create a new array then reinstall Windows and drivers

If the RAID array was RAID 1, then you may need to add the new drive to the Array, CNTL+I or CNTL+N at boot (Depending on the system model) add the new drive to the array and reboot. If the system still will not boot to Windows, then you may have a software error too with the OS.

If during troubleshooting, the array was broken in the RAID BIOS, then the array will need to be recreated and Windows/Drivers reinstalled.

go to pricegrabber.com to buy a new copy of XP. Save the stuff U want and install the new os. reload U'r saved data. If some of what U wnat to save are programs, U will have to reinstall those. The new XP os will self install from cd on boot up.

[boot loader]
timeout=30
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional" /fastdetect /NoExecute=OptIn
This is what the boot.ini file should look like. Use U'r recovery disk to create or edit the ini file as above. U cannot use DOS 6.22 to create this file if U'r system is formated in NTFS.
If U don't have a recovery disk, make one from someone else's XP computer (DOS 7.xx).