Factory Settings

Hi folks, I hope someone can help.

Here goes, I downloaded Windows 7 but I didn’t like it so I opted to go back to my factory setting (XP home which has been factory installed). The problem is that when I put my recovery disk in my computer it just hung looking for to boot of a disk and didn’t go back to my factory settings. I have ghost so I put that in(floppy and CD ) and it loaded up windows 98. I tried my recovery disk to see if I could get back to factory settings but had the same problems as above. A friend of a friend gave me a loan of a XP pro disk, so I loaded it up and everything was ok until I went to windows update. The XP Pro key is a counterfeit. Can someone tell me how I can find my original XP home so I can use it.

 

First off, your friends XP pro would not work for you because you have an XP home key. Using your friends cd-key on your computer would make it counterfeit.

You optical drive apparently works because it let you load the XP pro disk. Are there scratches on your recovery disk?