Most computer disk drives sold today will work with Mac OS X or Windows XP.
Windows 2000 Windows XP Professional and any after
Basic and Dynamic
Windows XP boot disks can be purchased at a number of different online sites. Amazon and eBay, for example, sell these boot disks for affordable rates.
No reason why not. Windows XP should be able to read disks created with Windows 98 without any problems. OpenOffice is capable of reading a wide variety of files.
You can't. iMovie is for Macs only. For Windows you have to use Windows Movie Maker.
by downloading and running the WinXP_EN_PRO_BF utility
You buy the disks from a game store and you put them in and they should start downloading
No, new laptops do not come with Windows XP back up software disks. New laptops and desktops now come with Windows 8 installed. A Windows XP disk could still be purchased separately at select places.
The extra unused 8 MB is for the creation of dynamic disks in Windows XP. Although not usable in the Home Edition, dynamic disks in the Professional Edition, as well as Windows Server 2003, are used to create software RAID setups.
The operating system for this netbook is Windows Vista Business, although it also comes with a media kit to downgrade to XP Professional if needed and includes disks for both XP Pro and Vista Business.
Reload xp from the restore disks.
The disks may have become damaged, thus making them unreadable. It is also possible that one or both of the floppy drives involved had misaligned heads. The drive the wrote the files to the disk may have placed them incorrectly, and thus only that drive can read those disks now. Or the drive on the Windows XP computer may be misaligned, and can't read the disks created correctly.