[richrutt]

The hard disk on my Dell Optiplex 240 died. I got a replacement disk from another computer in the office, but it was wiped clean and has no operating system on it. The orig drive had windows 2000 on it, but I thought I'd put XP on the new drive using a CD.

When I started up the computer with the new drive in it, I pressed F12 and the setup menu came up. I thought I'd be able to change the settings so that I could have the machine boot from the CD drive, but the screen indicated that the CD drive was not installed. The CD drive had worked previously, so I don't know how to proceed. Any suggestions?

[etaf]

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