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Windows XP Home Startup CD

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by scott

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My laptops hard drive stop reading so I had to raplace it. The problem is, I cant fine my Windows CD. I am thinking that it was on my hard drive. Is there a way to create a windows XP start up CD?

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by oh smeg

You will need to contact the maker of your computer and order a Recovery Disc from them.

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by 1bn0

Is the drive completely dead, won't boot or the Windows installation is so corrupted it will not function correctly?

If the drive is functional, e.g. "some" data can be read, you may be able to recover the system restore image.

I recently did this with a Dell Inspiron 6000. The drive became unstable and Windows would crash unexpectedly with drive read errors.

I connected the drive to an external USB adapter and was able to copy the Drive IMage software and iso from the hard drive and burn it to a cdrom on another computer.

This is ony a POSSIBILITY. IF your hard drive is marginally operational andIF the image is readily available on the drive.

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