i was trying to format my whole harddrive and install windows xp pro, because the laptop that i am doing this on only came with xp home. i wasnt able to get the laptop to boot from the cd for some odd ...

Will XP Pro run reasonably on a laptop i want to buy? It is an old dell, with a 550 Mhz P3.<BR>I'll probably max out the RAM, just to get reasonable performance, and i'm sure it'll be something like ...

Except for whatever copies of Windows are still on store shelves or installed on computers sitting on store shelves, you can no longer buy Windows XP after today. But you can still get XP for new ...