I need on overview (Picture) of a motherboard that is still connected to a Dell XPS Studio 8100

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You can always call Microsoft and explain your situation. My computer did not do that as well so i called their technical support center and they sent me a new copy of Vista, they didn't include the activation key but i only needed the back up CD.

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to my understanding it is a atx

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Hello,

Refer to this link:

http://support.dell.com/support/edocs/systems/studio8100/en/sg/sg_en.pdf

Go to page 18 and 19. It shows the eject buttons. They are on the side of the drive.

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If your motherboard in your new machine supports IDE and you set the jumper on the HDD to slave then I dont see any reason why you wouldnt be able to use it as a second drive

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If you mean re-image the system to the way it was from out of the factory:
http://www.fixya.com/support/r3705089-restore_dell_system_original