I need to borrow an XP Home install disk for a day. Prefer with SP3 but I'll take what I can get. This is not piracy. I have license and product install code with my old HP laptop. We just lost the disk. Please MS original ONLY. No pirated or downloaded copies. I've run into horrors before. John in Valencia
Solved Thanks to those who responded. I found that my problem was bigger than I thought. Turns out a DELL OEM disk will not work for a HP Laptop. You need an HP OEM disk. HP says they can't supply the disk for models that have been out of manufacture for more than two years "due to licensing restrictions". Microsoft says they cannot supply disks for HP computers "due to licensing restrictions". So after wasting twenty hours or more trying my best to be completely legal.... I finally said "to h**l with Microsoft and the horse they rode in on". I installed generic or "full" XP from a (non-OEM) disk I bought directly from MS years ago for a computer I built myself. I have, quite legally, moved it into each successive computer I've acquired and as long as I only have it on one box at a time it's complete legal. Now I have installed it on a second computer and successfully had it "activated". So now I'm a criminal but I'll be d****d if I'll throw away a perfectly good laptop because HP and MS can't get their acts together. I'll be equally "restricted to perdition" before I'll pay MS $100 to get a second legal "generic" license for a laptop that's only worth about $85 (on Ebay). This is especially frustrating because we only need the d****d windows for two programs, bookkeeping and CAD. Every thing else we do in Ubuntu Linux. I'm phasing out Quicken so soon it will be only one program. I highly recommend Ubuntu, BTW, to anyone fed up with MS trying to dig into your pockets for another $100 every two years for nothing but silly "eye candy". You have to retrain a bit but you get all the software that would cost you $1000+ to get legally on Windows for free and 100% legal. Thanx again
