Hi, my computer is going really slowly, and crashing constantly, and i thought it would be a good idea to reformat and reinstall windows XP. However, i'm new to this and I put in the CD with service pack 2 and went through some stuff and it deleted a whole heap of stuff and started copying some files across, but it will always stop copying some files and it says it can't find them... So I took the CD out and it has a massive scratch around the outside face of it.
So I figured I would just borrow a friends CD except it says '2002 edition' instead of 'includes service pack 2'. Is there anyway I can install this version instead, and are there any drawbacks to doing so.
Sorry for all the writing, but heres some additional info: after doing all that, I went to some forums and found out how to actually reformat my computer, and so I did some C: /fs:ntfs thing and it said it couldn't find the auto reformat file. Oh, a few files have also been deleted, such as the fact I can't access internet explorer anymore. Thanks for any help possible, sorry for writing so much...
So I figured I would just borrow a friends CD except it says '2002 edition' instead of 'includes service pack 2'. Is there anyway I can install this version instead, and are there any drawbacks to doing so.
Sorry for all the writing, but heres some additional info: after doing all that, I went to some forums and found out how to actually reformat my computer, and so I did some C: /fs:ntfs thing and it said it couldn't find the auto reformat file. Oh, a few files have also been deleted, such as the fact I can't access internet explorer anymore. Thanks for any help possible, sorry for writing so much...