[dar512]

If you have them, they'll be really large files. Probably larger than 600M. Might have .img or .iso extension, but that's not guaranteed. These are bit images of what the cd should look like, sector for sector. Your cd burning software should recognize them and allow you to burn a cd from them. Look in your Dell directory. If you don't see something like that try using file search for all files (enter just * as the filename) and specify a size of 500000.

If you don't find anything, you probably don't have disk images. If you are sure you didn't lose the disks, you can try calling Dell and complaining.

I've never sprung for MS Office. All of us at the dar household use OpenOffice. It works well enough for our purposes and is pretty good at creating MS Office format files. It's worth a check if all else fails. And OpenOffice runs on Windows too. You don't have to switch to Linux.