Lost Installation CD

[Guest]

Ok I lost my installation and I know I am going to need for many things.

I have the Proof of Purchase Code and I am wondering if it is possilbe to
get a new Windows Installation CD for Xp Home edition

 

[cornedbeef007-groups]

Ok I lost my installation and I know I am going to need for many things.

I have the Proof of Purchase Code and I am wondering if it is possilbe to
get a new Windows Installation CD for Xp Home edition

If it was full package product call microsoft
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/326246

If it's OEM, call the computer manufacturer you got the machine from.

Good luck.

 

[Jerry]

Ok I lost my installation and I know I am going to need for many things.

I have the Proof of Purchase Code and I am wondering if it is possilbe to
get a new Windows Installation CD for Xp Home edition

I would want one also in your situation but I have to wonder, what makes you
think you are going to need it for many things. What kinds of things?
Since I've installed my XP Home upgrade version over 4 years ago, I have
never had a need to use the cd again.

 

[Uncle Grumpy]

Since I've installed my XP Home upgrade version over 4 years ago, I have
never had a need to use the cd again.

What's that got to do with the OP's problem?

FYI... it's nice to have the disc "just in case".

 

[M.I.5¾]

I would want one also in your situation but I have to wonder, what makes
you think you are going to need it for many things. What kinds of things?
Since I've installed my XP Home upgrade version over 4 years ago, I have
never had a need to use the cd again.

The fact that you haven't doesn't mean that others have not had the
necessity to do so.

 

[smlunatick]

I would want one also in your situation but I have to wonder, what makes you
think you are going to need it for many things. What kinds of things?
Since I've installed my XP Home upgrade version over 4 years ago, I have
never had a need to use the cd again.

What would you do if your hard drive "bites the dust?"

 

[Unknown]

I would buy a new HD, format it and then copy my backup drive to it. I.E. CD
not needed.

 

[Jerry]

What would you do if your hard drive "bites the dust?"

I would replace the hard drive and restore it from the ghost image I make
occasionally just for that purpose. Again, I have never needed to use the
XP Home cd after the initial install. Why would you? I'm not saying he
shouldn't pursue getting a replacement but he can copy anyone XP Home cd and
use it just as long as it's the same type.

 

[cornedbeef007-groups]

I'm not saying he

shouldn't pursue getting a replacement but he can copy anyone XP Home cd and
use it just as long as it's the same type.>

which you can do like this.

If it was full package product call microsoft
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/326246

If it's OEM, call the computer manufacturer you got the machine from.

 

[Guest]

THe thing is m computer is getting filled with junk and I want a fresh start
so I am going to format

 

[M.I.5¾]

I would buy a new HD, format it and then copy my backup drive to it. I.E.
CD not needed.

This is fine as long as the installation on the backup still works. What
would you do if (say) your installation stopped seeing your broadband access
and kept looping back to the Windows default port. A system restore failed
to recover the situation, and none of the Microsoft knowledge base articles
helped? You can't do a repair because you haven't got the disc.

You would restore your backup only to discover that the seeds of the failure
are in the backup and it stops seeing the broadband one week later.

Niggling problems like this are not uncommon, and when you have enough of
them it's time for a rebuild.

 

[Daave]

THe thing is m computer is getting filled with junk and I want a fresh
start
so I am going to format

It would probably be much easier and quicker just to get rid of the
junk.

 

[Unknown]

And why wouldn't the installation on the backup work.
You're far too pessimistic. Would you suggest making two backups in the
event one doesn't work?
Do you know of anyone making two backups?
What would you do if your disk/s broke? Get two sets??

 

[Poprivet]

If it was full package product call microsoft
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/326246

If it's OEM, call the computer manufacturer you got the machine from.

Good luck.

It never ceases to amaze/amuze me how, when one, logical, correct response
turns up to a post here, how twenty more dummies crawl out of the ether to
go off topic, repeat the same information, and ask totally unrelated
questions of the OP after the question has been properly responded to.

This newsgroup has lost a lot of its effectiveness for that reason. When
newbie sees all that misinformation and irrelevant questions and comments,
he just ends up more confused. I suspect these lazy narcissists don't read
any of the responses but just jump in with their own "looka me ma" crap.

Pop`

 

[Poprivet]

Actually: Two backups are the recommended procedure if you actually read
about real archiving.
But you neatly sidestepped the possibility that was mentioned about your
backup containing problems too that you don't realize are there. Some
things can go for months before they become a problem. Some for week; some
days, some immediately.

Don't look now, but your ignorance and lack of experience are showing. You
WILL find out soon enough. You've been lucky, not smart.

 

[Unknown]

You don't know my experience level nor intelligence level so you're the one
displaying
ignorance by saying I will find out soon enough and that I have been lucky.

 

[Michael Proctor]

And why wouldn't the installation on the backup work.
You're far too pessimistic. Would you suggest making two backups in the
event one doesn't work?
Do you know of anyone making two backups?
What would you do if your disk/s broke? Get two sets??

I ALWAYS make 2 copies of backups. One for here at the house, One to
keep at a friends house. Just my 2 cents worth.
Mike

 

[Bruce Chambers]

THe thing is m computer is getting filled with junk and I want a fresh start
so I am going to format

Throwing out the baby with the bath water? Why not simply delete the
"junk?"


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[M.I.5¾]

And why wouldn't the installation on the backup work.
You're far too pessimistic. Would you suggest making two backups in the
event one doesn't work?
Do you know of anyone making two backups?

I *always* have two backups. A backup isn't a backup unless it's backed up.
The time to discover that your backup is no good is when you need to restore
it in anger. *And* I periodically check that my backup is capable of being
correctly restored by restoring it to an old gash hard drive.

But it doesn't help if the seeds of the failure mode are on both backups.
To take a real life example: someone I know had a PC where it refused to
hibernate (There were many other niggling problems, but I pick this one as
an example). Having completely failed to overcome this (and the other
problems), we restored one of his backups. This fixed the hibernate
problem, except that it occured again within a week. We discovered that
everytime the backup was restored, the PC could only be hibernated 6 times.
On the 7th attempt, it broke. This was alarmingly consistent.

No problem (we thought), having rescued the important data, we restored the
grandfather backup (1 week older). We discovered the same problem except
this one could be hibernated around 15 times before failing. And again it
was consistent. Many of the other apparently cured faults reappeared with
consistency. We never solved it or explained it. In the end, we just had
to rebuild the system.

 

[M.I.5¾]

Actually: Two backups are the recommended procedure if you actually read
about real archiving.
But you neatly sidestepped the possibility that was mentioned about your
backup containing problems too that you don't realize are there. Some
things can go for months before they become a problem. Some for week;
some days, some immediately.

Don't look now, but your ignorance and lack of experience are showing.
You WILL find out soon enough. You've been lucky, not smart.

There are two types of computer user

Those who have had a hard disk die on them ...

.... and those who are going to have a hard disk die on them.