Use Restore Cd's To Reinstall The Os?

Dec 31, 2007

when i bought my machine a couple of years ago i was not given the original windows xp home edition cd, instead they gave me 3 restore cd's, can i use those cd's to reinstall xp on my machine if something goes terribly wrong or do i need the original xp cd (which like i said i was not given)?

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Jan 20, 2008

We have 3 puters here, all hooked up. One is a Compaq and the other two are Dell's. The Compaq is obvious and I can't mess that up, but I did on the other two.Last year, I decided I wanted a fresh puter, so I backed up all of my stuff onto the 2nd Dell [it's used just for the children and was not allowed online] and reformatted it. Now I want to put my stuff back onto my Compaq and reformat the children's.I wanted to check which Windows CD went with what Dell, so I went to look at the OEM numbers on each puter. Well, darn it, but they're both the same!! How do I figure out which Windows CD is supposed to go with which puter???? Each one is assigned one, right?One CD is like a purple/burgundy and says, "Reinstallation CD Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition Including Service Pack 1" [the booklet that came with it says, "Version 2002"]. and the other CD is like a mauve/purple [close to the colour of this dude --> ] and says, "Reinstallation CD Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition Including Service Pack 2" [the booklet that came with it says, "Version 2002"]. Not exactly sure how old the Dell's are, but the one the children use was hubby's - he gave it to me when he bought a new one for himself and then I gave it to them when he bought me the Compaq. He's had his new one for about 4 years.While looking through the CD's [I keep them all together in a box], I found a square paper with a pic of a blue CD on it and it says, "Your new computer does not require an operating system CD or drivers CD's. Instead, if you ever need to reinstall your software, use one of the following methods." and suggests either System Restore or PC Restore. What puter does THAT come with?Now, the childrens' puter has never had the Windows updates as it's not online, no Service Pack 2 or anything like that, so no Genuine Advantage should be on it, but it is? Their puter is only for games that we buy them: disks, CD's, and the online games that they like to play are played on either my or hubby's puters.

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Jul 23, 2005

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Apr 5, 2005

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I was messing around with CCleaner and deleted something to do with an old version of McAfee (which isn't even on my computer anymore) from the registry. Yes, it was stupid to mess with the registry I guess because I failed to make the backup and now my computer won't boot. I get the blue screen that says there was an error 0x0000008e, or something like that.

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Jan 14, 2009

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