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it would be illegal to use your sons dvd. It is oem and is only allowed to be installed on the computer it came with. It can never be installed on any other computer.
one thing to consider, if xp is slow, then if you installed vista, your computer will, most likely be much, much slower.
You may be able to contact dell and get a replacement restore disk. One other thing you can try is as soon as you power on, press ctrl+f11 key. It should access dells restore partition - if available.
Before you do anything, make sure you backup anything you cannot afford to lose.
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