Windows XP Installation Media?

[aisle9]

So I have an HP zv5240us laptop here that I bought on the cheap (I'm at least the third owner) and want to offload. It's got a Windows XP license and installed, but there's no recovery partition or factory reset program I can find, and the recovery disks themselves weren't with the PC. Oh, also, the 60GB hard drive is at least 40% pictures of the woman who apparently owned the laptop first prancing around naked and giving her then-boyfriend blowjobs, so I'm really tired of looking around the HDD for a recovery partition and instead finding pictures of tits taken through a camera with a thin, slimy white filter over the lens.

 

Wipe your f*cking laptop before you sell it, people.

 

Anyway, given that I am officially done trying to tiptoe through the porn-loaded minefield that is this woman's hard drive in hopes of finding a recovery program or disk image from 2005, is there anywhere that I can get my hands on Windows XP install media for a Pentium 4 and just bleach the hard drive on install with it?

[ProjectBox153]

There's plenty of places online. What version?

[tim0901]

Just google "Windows XP 32/64 bit ISO", should find what you're after. You have a licence key for it I assume?

[aisle9]

XP 32-bit. I think it's got SP2 loaded.

[ProjectBox153]

Just now, aisle9 said:

XP 32-bit. I think it's got SP2 loaded.

Home or Pro?

[aisle9]

Just now, tim0901 said:

Just google "Windows XP 32/64 bit ISO", should find what you're after. You have a licence key for it I assume?

I keep reading that most of those ISO sites are malware-infested. Hoping there's a single, clean, legit source out there (other than Microsoft, which doesn't seem to have the ISO).

[duke8253]

Try searching for "MSDN I tell you", I use this website all the time, the hash checks out with the real MSDN site.

[tim0901]

Just now, aisle9 said:

I keep reading that most of those ISO sites are malware-infested. Hoping there's a single, clean, legit source out there (other than Microsoft, which doesn't seem to have the ISO).

I googled it and found an Official Microsoft Download for it... You just need to look carefully that's all

 

[ProjectBox153]

Just now, tim0901 said:

I googled it and found an Official Microsoft Download for it... You just need to look carefully that's all

 

That's just the service pack for it. And why did you search XP X64? To the OP, what version? Home or Pro?

[aisle9]

Just now, Jamiec1130 said:

Home or Pro?

Just checked, it's Home

[ProjectBox153]

1 minute ago, aisle9 said:

Just checked, it's Home

HERE

[aisle9]

Just now, Jamiec1130 said:

HERE

Thank you! Now to nuke this drive...

[kelvinhall05]

I have XP SP2 media, PM me your email if your interested (I can give it to you through Google Drive).

[ProjectBox153]

Just now, aisle9 said:

Thank you! Now to nuke this drive...

Good luck. You'll need to enter that product key you have. It is a SP3 disc, but it's fine. 

[duke8253]

This is the site I mentioned above, it has most of the official ISO files from MSDN. http://msdn.itellyou.cn/?lang=en-us

[ProjectBox153]

2 minutes ago, duke8253 said:

This is the site I mentioned above, it has most of the official ISO files from MSDN.  msdn.itellyou.cn

That's an interesting site, but how do you download from it?

[duke8253]

1 minute ago, Jamiec1130 said:

That's an interesting site, but how do you download from it?

It uses e2dk links, so any downloading software that supports that can download, eDonkey for example.