Hi I just got this laptop from my granddaughter. It's a dell inspiron 2500.
thats about all I know at the time. And can't get it to work.
all I get is a black screen with blinking cursor. And she has no, reboot disk are any thing with it. to where i can try and reinstall windows.

is there anyway I can get a replacement disk somewhere on the net? she has misplace all the disk and things that came with it. And has no, ideal where it all is. And I want to fix it. Can someone help me?

What maybe could this problem be? And by reinstalling windows will it help?
Oh, it has windows XP, installed now home editions. she said it was working just a few months back and this went wrong and she just never did anything with it.

And when it comes to computers I'm lost lol. I would appreciate any help.
thanks. :-)