When this happens you most likely have a separate partiton with a image of the HD when it was shipped. There should be a bootable program you can choose to run the recovery tool.
CD to PC is easy windowsxp you having that CD and install it and after that give a password of that windowsxp
you have to install win xp via a usb or by using an external CD drive.
You have to have a hard drive in your PC, a Windows Xp installation CD or DVD, a serial number, and data for activation (if required). After that go in BIOS settings, find boor order or boot sequence settings and choose as first bootable device a CD-ROM (DVD-ROM). Then insert the disk in CD/DVD device save settings in BIOS, you PC will restart and after that follow instruction of XP installer.
A CD is required. The language font settings are stored in a database on the CD, or in a separate folder on the PC which must be manually installed (no default)
Autorun CD Then select copy Music and copy it to your PC or any application just by giving path Visit http://latestxptips.blogspot.com for tips and tricks
It is in or on the box the software came in, the CD or on a sticker somewhere on the outside of your computer if you bought a computer with XP pre-installed(Microsoft first stop doing this at release of Windows 8). If you lost the box or can't find the product key on your computer then you can get it off the installation CD assuming you still have it. Without the installation CD there is no need for the product key since you would not be able to install the software without it. The manufacturer of the PC might store cheap backup recovery CD's. All XP Support ends April 2014.
i download windows xp service pack 3 and wright cd but this is not bootable, so you can help me how i can make bookable windows xp sp3 cd.
first insert windows XP CD into CD ROM drive then press Del button setup bios setting first CD, second HDD, Third Floppy Disk or disables
Change the boot order in the CMOS/BIOS.
some xp-installed computers do not have a feature to create backups of the system that came pre-installed. I personally had to pay $50 to hp to get a set of 8 recovery discs. no-it was not a single CD for just installing windows xp on a computer it was all the software that came on the hard-drive when i bought it. the assumption companies make is that the recovery partition on the hard-drive will never fail you. so if you don't have the windows xp CD you have to use the recovery partition of your drive or recovery CD set.
Any USB CD / DVD drive can easily be installed; just plug it into one of the USB ports on the Eee PC. Both Windows XP and Linux should be able to see it; and you can boot from it in the BIOS.
A free Windows XP repair disk can be downloaded from Softonic, Tech Republic, Kioskia, Software Solution, Boot From CD, PC Support and Disk Internals.