this if for an e machine (model w3118) running windows home xp. the hard drive went belly up and the restore cd (if there was one) is missing. can someone please tell me the best way to go about getting a cd with the operating system, the drivers and apps. i need to get this machine running as it was when it came out of the box. any idea what the cost of this would be in us dollars? thank you

Go to eMachines support and open a chat with tech support

This might be a good link:
https://support.gateway.com/support/copilot/chat_check_emachines.asp

thank you, I will attempt this and post the results (great success hopefully).