so 4 months ago, my computer's fan started getting loudly and it overheated, so i decided to wipe everything off the harddrive and I thought it wouldn't be a problem since I had the recovery discs.
Well, one of the recovery discs was scratched too much, so I couldn't finish the process. One of the discs snapped because I tried to clean it with toothpaste.
I haven't touched my computer in months.
What would be the process of getting new recovery discs? My computer is an HP desktop from 2006. I called hp and I think they said they couldn't find current discs for it.
Besides getting new recovery discs, how much would it cost to get a windows xp operating systems disc? Does it matter which windows xp operating systems?