Need DELL OPTIPLEX GX620 recovery CD. Help!

[Ral-Clan]

Hi there.

Does anyone out there have the recovery CD for an old DELL OPTIPLEX GX620 PC?
These are dual-core PCs from about 8 years ago.

I have one of these computers, but am missing the recover CD. Apparently you CANNOT do a fresh Windows XP installation without this CD because it contains the required SATA drives (which a bog standard Windows XP disc does not have).  If you try without the required drivers (which are only available on this CD) then the computer hangs during installation.

I would REALLY love to buy this CD for a reasonable price, or pay for shipping, or if you could provide an .iso image I could download, it would be very much appreciated.

The GX620 line was really popular in offices a few years ago, so I'm hoping someone out there might have held onto an install CD.

Thanks!

[amiman99]

Did you try Dell website? Dell is pretty good with it's drivers and install CDs.

I'm not 100% sure, but when you install WinXP at the beginning it may ask you if you have driver for a SATA controller and then you need to insert the floppy disk with the driver, which you can get from Dell's website.

[Ral-Clan]

Did you try Dell website? Dell is pretty good with it's drivers and install CDs.

I'm not 100% sure, but when you install WinXP at the beginning it may ask you if you have driver for a SATA controller and then you need to insert the floppy disk with the driver, which you can get from Dell's website.

Yes, that is exactly what I need to do.  The problem is the SATA driver for this motherboard are ONLY available on the WINXP recovery disk that came with the system.  They are not on Dell's website.

I wonder if there's a way to extract them from the WinXP install on the hard drive of the computer, so that if I ever did need to do a fresh installation, I could.

[Lurch]

We have been decommissioning these machines from our fleet, they don't need any special drivers just turn AHCI off in the BIOS.

When XP is finished installing then download the needed drivers from Dell, usually it will be the video card or sound card. But all the drivers are there on the site.

Even better put 4GB of RAM in it and it runs Windows 7 okay, I wouldn't be installing XP anymore.

[Lurch]

Or if you can't be bothered downloading the drivers from their site you can use double driver to backup existing drivers.

http://www.pendriveapps.com/double-driver-backup/