Most of the time the disk you end up with fails. Lots of recovery disks use images of the hard drive, so they don't have the Windows install files. I have a different question now since I was able to get a hold of a oem hologram xp cd... Is it possible to take files from the i386 folder on my recovery cd and copy them over the files in the i386 directory of my XP work folder and have it work as being pre-activated?