Reformatting / Reinstalling Windows

[zim]

So I'd like to reinstall WinXP on my older pc, it's a few years old and runs pretty sluggish. I don't have a WinXP disk so I was wondering are there actually any legit links out there that I can download it from and then burn it to a disk? Never done this before.

[shadowalk]

There's tons of torrents of cracked Windows XP SP3s out there in .iso form. A lot of them now are fully-updatable, has slipstreamed CD keys (no need for one) and has a lot of stuff most people actually use pre-installed in them like firefox, WMP11, CPU-Z and the like. Just download one, use an image reader (I suggest PowerISO) to burn it on a CD and install.

[zim]

thanks, just wanted to make sure there was stuff that actually works.



i've got a fucking nasty virus on that computer atm. having a hard time removing it

[zim]

ran into my first problem, i put in the xp disc and booted from it and after a few seconds i got this. not sure what to do yet but i'm all over google

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ohci1394.sys is corrupted

[zim]

turns out the cd had some scratches in bad places, burned another cd and it's working. currently reformatting.

[shadowalk]

I suggest partitioning and allot around 15 GB for the system partition.