Reinstalling windows on a new hard drive

Archived from groups: microsoft.public.windowsxp.perform_maintain (More info?)

My computer's hard drive went kpui last weekend and my spousal unit took
it to the "geek Squad", and paid them to hear the same thing I said -
the hard drive is dead. We paid them to replace it (which is being done
, I suppose, even at this moment). They asked if we wanted to pay them
to replace the operating system. Now I have the OS disk for the
computer. What I need to know, can I install it by putting it into the
disk drive, booting it up, choosing Cd drive as the boot up and let it
install, or do I have to pay the geeks to do it?
Thanks a lot!

Archived from groups: microsoft.public.windowsxp.perform_maintain (More info?)

Assuming you have a full retail copy of xp rather than a recovery disk
supplied by the pc manufacturer (recovery disks are simple enough to
install) you might want to visit my website http://xphelpandsupport.mvps.org
Click the Win XP Faq button and take a look at question 85. The shows you
how to install windows xp and is illustrated for greater clarity.

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John Barnett MVP
Associate Expert
http://xphelpandsupport.mvps.org

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"KMP" <kathybear@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> My computer's hard drive went kpui last weekend and my spousal unit took
> it to the "geek Squad", and paid them to hear the same thing I said - the
> hard drive is dead. We paid them to replace it (which is being done , I
> suppose, even at this moment). They asked if we wanted to pay them to
> replace the operating system. Now I have the OS disk for the computer.
> What I need to know, can I install it by putting it into the disk drive,
> booting it up, choosing Cd drive as the boot up and let it install, or do
> I have to pay the geeks to do it?
> Thanks a lot!