Of course you can, but HP's don't ship with Windows XP media, they ship with
a recovery kit which reinstalls all drivers and apps to their out of box
state.
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"BlueNile" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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>I want to format my pc & I have original winxp cd came with my HP comp.
> My question is can I reinstall winxp with the same license in the same
> machine?
>
> Thanks