I have a dell 4400 it shows that I need to reload op system I have a old cd with I loaded then it ask fro a cd-ram disk thak I do not have any help you can give me.

The RAM drive is a temporary drive created by an installation program. It's normal and it's only temporary.

The RAM drive is a temporary drive created by an installation program. It's normal and it's only temporary.

I tried again and it gave me this error d:\1386\asms

Are you using an XP CD direct from Microsoft?

You can also look here: "The file 'Asms' on Windows XP Professional CD-ROM is needed" error message when you install Windows XP (http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;311755)