I would recomend shelling out the $10 for the disks from Dell. And go ahead and do it now as opposed to waiting untill you realy need them. I ran into a situation not to long ago where they had discontinued the recovery CDs for the model I was working on (customer unit) and the customer was stuck buying a copy of off the shelf XP and then we had to spend a couple of HOURS trying to track down the right drivers. Dell did not have them identified on thier site.