Xp

jamesybravo

I have no disc with mines either, I selected restore factory settings and mines went back to as if I'd just bought it with xp already installed etc. As mentioned before it should be a matter of tapping one of the functon keys when pc starts up and selecting it from there.

dc

A lot of new pc's do not come with windows cd anymore and you are required to create your own recovery cd asap after purchase.
Sometimes you dont know that till you need to recover from a faulty drive and there is no option/help available from sellers or manufacturers other than being told you need to purchase a cd from a specialist company that sells "official" 98 and 2000 cd's for £16 and XP home ones for £22. Details if I can get them (Email from E-Machines via PCWorld) off a duff hard drive.
You live and learn, having refused to pay and suffered from the BG's invalid registration code and 30 days to register lockouts by trying to load XP from the wife's Pro cd :mad: .

steve1963_2

Having bought my PC relatively recently, my PC had a setting to give a one time d/l of the XP discs. this did not work and as i was a genuine buyer with all the correct serial numbers etc - a quick call to the shops help line and they sent me a set in the post, within three days I was sorted.

Steve1963

dava123

jamesybravo wrote:

I have no disc with mines either, I selected restore factory settings and mines went back to as if I'd just bought it with xp already installed etc. As mentioned before it should be a matter of tapping one of the functon keys when pc starts up and selecting it from there.

same as mine ive rebooted mine loads of times now .i just restart the pc and keep hitting f8.and it gives me the option of a factory reset,once it just gave me a free phone no to ring and then it asked me for the reg no on the side.when i told them they gave me a new number to put in,works a treat now.hope this helps,
must reboot mine again soon and get my antivirus up to date with another 12 months subs