can I wipe my hard drive clean and install windows 95 without my xp cd, cause it is broken?

Answer 1

Short answer....Toss Win95 CD in the trash. Borrow a Win XP CD same version as yours was from a friend, either XP Home or XP Professional (do not expect an upgrade for free or you will be caught!). Look on the bottom/back/sides/front of your puter for a Win XP label, there is a 25 letter & # XP CD KEY # on it somewhere. (at least there should be).

Insert the XP CD and start the install process...when it asks for the XP CD KEY #, use the # from your label (not the one from the friends label), then when the install is complete, get the thing online now, and you go to register the software or verify, you will be asked to call a Microsoft 1-800 # (no worries as long as you used your CD KEY# it is fully legal to do this), the operator will answer, tell her it was an install not using same CD disk but that you used your legal CD KEY #, they will scan your computer after you enter a new CD Key she gives you, and you are in like flynn!

Then go to Win Update, you'll need to pass WGA, no worries, it will verify as genuine as your label shows it is genuine, then get all the updates until there are no more to get. Install all the rest of your software. and have fun.
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If you cannot find that label, but you know for absolute sure the XP Lic. is fully legal...in other words your computer came w/ that currently installed copy that is on it right now, and that computer will boot up right now (before you wipe the drive clean that is). Go to www.belarc.com, download the free belarc advisor, install it, run it, look down just above Installed Software and you will find that XP CD key #.

It will look like this: (letters and #'s 25 digits in 5X5 digits-the one at the end, not the actual hash code which is 5-3-7-5 digits long at the beginning...that Key # actually stands for that hash serial # that is all #'s ).

Microsoft - Windows XP Professional XXXXX-XXX-XXXXXXX-XXXXX
(Key: XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX) <---this Key# is the one you want to WRITE DOWN once the belarc inventory is loaded. Print it out if you can.

Good Luck!

Answer 2

Most of the programs that you have probably would not work under 95. Your computer may not work under W95, if it was designed for XP.

Explain your situation in more detail. What happened that you need to reinstall the OS? The more information that you give, the more likely someone can help you.

Answer 3

"so i'm forced to apply a disc that got here with my old pc." do not you propose it extremely is extremely helpful to apply the single that did not comprise the pc? i'm perplexed - i presumed that the disc that got here with the gadget wasn't readible. Is your CD stress working? Assuming it reads DVD besides. Yu wipre your HD by using installation the OS, straightforward as that. be optimistic that this is the alternative as a results of fact getting your laptop lower back to wide-spread after a reinstall could be a time-eating soreness.