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After installation, you have to activate by phone and NOT by automatic online activation.Īs others have posted, there is nowhere on the Microsoft site that you can download an ISO file or equivalent for Windows XP Home. Install using this CD and the product key that's on your computer's CoA, and NOT

If no recovery discs are available from HP/Compaq, please try other suppliers such as In a pinch you can borrow a friend's genuine Microsoft hologrammed XP Home installation disc that comes with Microsoft systembuilder/OEM/small manufacturer licenses for XP Home. It is still licensed to run Windows XP Home from HP/Compaq. If the original motherboard is still in the computer, Please contact HP/Compaq tech support to see if you can order recovery discs for the computer. Since the Certificate of Authenticity (CoA) has "HPQ" on it, we know that this is an HP or Compaq computer. The product key sticker or whatever, says "Windows XP Home Edition, HPQ" can't run anything effectively with ubuntu on the comp. Turns out it works better with Win XP, having only be able to support Opengl 1.8.

The computer wouldn't allow a parallel installation for my life, so it was a clean install.

The only thing I need, is the OS INSTALLATION DISK so I can re-install Windows to my computer.Ģ) I got it from my grandmother, who got it years ago. The computer is currently running Ubuntu (a Linux distro.) but with how old the computer is, it cannot run most programs I would like to. They both require too much processor/ram. the computer isn't even capable of running to find out where the **** I can find an OS INSTALLATION CD for Windows XP Home edition. (Which I DO NOT want and CAN NOT afford) as well as the service packs, but not the actual OPERATING SYSTEM INSTALLATION It's only advertisements for Windows 7 and Vista.

Yes, I have looked ALL OVER the Microsoft website, and cannot find a setup CD for my life. I want to install Windows back on to the computer I received from my grandmother, yet I do not have the install CD for Windows XP Home edition.