Create XP start up CD without original CD?

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Lex

Can I create a start up CD for XP without the original XP CD that SHOULD have
come with my computer but never did? Can I buy a new one from somewhere?

I bought the computer about 4 years ago in Hong Kong. I now live in London.
So contacting the retailer to ask them to supply me with what they never did
in the first place is unlikely.

Useful advice always welcome and gratefully received.

A
 
Although this newsgroup is not for general Windows questions (it's for
Microsoft .NET programming quesitons), the answer is, no, you can't burn a
Windows XP CD from just the files you have on your hard drive, unless the
OEM actually put the entire Windows XP CD files on your hard drive
somewhere.

-Scott
 
Thanks Scott.

Apologies for being in the wrong place. I thought the answer to the question
might be no. I doubt if the supplier had put the disc on my HD. If he did,
what would I be looking for? What would the file be called and how big might
it be?

Worth a shot.

Many thanks in advance

A
 
Thank you.

Pretty sure the laptop does not have a recovery partition (my new desktop
with Vista has one, and I created recovery discs from it, so I know what it
looks like).

Don't know what an OEM is. However, are you saying that I can borrow someone
else's as long as I have the Microsoft Product Key? So the CDs are not
'registered to a single computer'? I have the product key.

I have thought of replacement, but had read that it's difficult to get. I've
only just started searching for Microsoft in the UK.

All in all, I prefer the idea of borrowing one.

Many thanks.

A
 
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