I don't have an installation CD for Windows XP - what if I need one?

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My brother had been having problems with his computer and he wanted to have it clean sweeped and upgraded to XP home edition. So, my b/f did it for him. My b/f took his copy of XP and told him to go out and purchase his own copy so he could put in the product key. Well, my brother never did. What will happen and will it cause the computer to not respond or read disks? please help

Where i will get the Installation CD for Windows XP?

I have problem with startup. Computer is very slow while booting. Some hosts file is missing in explorer.exe file. Iexplorer file also corrupted. Is there any way to solve this problem without formating it.

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Casimir

i lost my cd for windows xp @ windows fell out of my pc how do i get it back with out it
thanks david

Depends entirely on what you mean by "fell out". I added some related links to this article ... perhaps one or more of those may help?

I have a emachines w/ XP i have the resote CD's my problem it want boot up to reformat the computer.It needs to reformatted to restore what has been lost but can't get the CD to work.Please tell me what i can do.

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Rhonda

Hard to say without knowing more. How is it failing to boot?

i put CD in then reboot computer it will not read the CD says no info on CD but when i put another CD it will show files on it.Something came up on black screen where its looks like it will boot but doesn't. This is what it says- Pri.Master Disk HDD S.M.A.R.T. Cappability - Disabled.
Just tried rebooting again with CD now it is just a black screen on it nothing showing.

Rhonda

I purchased an eMachines T2200 several years ago, and I can't even remember if it came with a recovery disk or not. I believe my computer has a worm or virus, and I want to restore it to it's "prime" condition, or how it was when I purchased it. Is there any other way, like a F- key to press while booting up or something I can do while on the computer? The eMachines website offers no help at all and I can't find anything else about this model online.

No magic keystrokes that I'm aware of. The only way to reset to initial conditions is to reinstall, and that means having a CD to install from.

Hi, I tried to trace the folder (I386) on my computer with a windows XP home edition and also tried a search for the 2 winnt files you had mentioned but could not find it. I do have a windows CD...
My other problem is that my Windows screen hangs just before the blue welcome screen - on the Windows Logo page...It has automatically corrected itself (after a day or so) this has happened thrice now! I was able to use the safe mode by resetting. I was wondering if you could help. Thanks

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