Gentlemen: You may misunderstand me. I do not want to restore an old Dell desktop but trash it. I did buy a cheap (in quality and price) USB DVD drive. but that too is dead now. I believe most computer stores no longer sell it. I will get another one. As I tried to explain Dell sold me an old version of Internet Explorer on CD but not the factory restore disk. There are two CDs to the set I have that is menu driven. One should burn the HDD without Windows installed. That is all for now. Let's watch John quote these three paragraphs. Gerald