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brentidge
08-19-2010, 02:12 PM
i have been having pc problems and i am just wanting to reformat my hard drive start over nice and fresh but i dont have a windows xp disk i do have the reg. key and it is legal came with the pc just did not come with the disk any way around this or do i have to buy one?
Starfish :3
08-19-2010, 02:38 PM
i have been having pc problems and i am just wanting to reformat my hard drive start over nice and fresh but i dont have a windows xp disk i do have the reg. key and it is legal came with the pc just did not come with the disk any way around this or do i have to buy one?

download from isohunt or something and burn image to a cd? should work if u have the key
Perry
08-19-2010, 02:46 PM
computers have a factory restore setting. do that.
anex
08-19-2010, 03:26 PM
D/l the xp iso from a torrent site or get one from a friend. Avoid buying what you already paid for...
brentidge
08-19-2010, 04:01 PM
okay i downloaded xp and burned it to a disk set my pc to boot off my cd rom and it dosent read the disk do i have to do something with it first befor burning it to a disk?
XX0wnsXY
08-19-2010, 04:02 PM
okay i downloaded xp and burned it to a disk set my pc to boot off my cd rom and it dosent read the disk do i have to do something with it first befor burning it to a disk?

Did you finalize it?
taz1stP
08-19-2010, 04:55 PM
i can have my bud look up where he gets his from that i use all the time it works and is a download just burn to a cd and you will be set pm me if you the site.
mag36
08-19-2010, 05:08 PM
Hmm what format was the download of torrent file????? .ISO or what ? theres alot of factors why the cd might not work
acolyte_to_jippity
08-19-2010, 05:32 PM
when you download the torrent, and after you fully download the file inside (through azureus Utorrent, bitlord...etc) it should be a .iso file (perhaps several :shrug:)

dowload a program called DaemonTools, and then the AstroBurnLite to go with it. this will allow you to burn the .ISO file you got to a blank cd and have it work as a fully-formed CD. it's possible that when you burned the .iso, you burned the CD as essentially, a CD containing the file. instead, you need to use AstroBurn or something like that to basically "mount" the .ISO to the cd.