Dell PC & New HDD TIA

A buddy bought a 2nd hand pc, Dell desktop with a screwed up hdd so he
bought a new Maxtor. He tried to load Win XP Pro but had no joy with
that. He doesn't have the Dell reload whatever cd's. Is there any way
to install Win XP Pro without these cd's? TIA

On Tue, 30 Sep 2008 13:59:47 -0700 (PDT), sandy58
<aleckie68@googlemail.com> wrote:

>A buddy bought a 2nd hand pc, Dell desktop with a screwed up hdd so he
>bought a new Maxtor. He tried to load Win XP Pro but had no joy with
>that. He doesn't have the Dell reload whatever cd's. Is there any way
>to install Win XP Pro without these cd's? TIA

Factory specs - press ctrl+enter when booting up and see blue band
across top of screen ( lasts 2 secs) .