First, your typing in all capitals is distracting.

Next, the function of your RECOVERY CD varies with each vendor's implementation. Today I see nicer versions with options to wipe out the machine and put it to the state as it came from the factory or to attempt a restore to factory state without losing the user's files.

A Rescue Diskette is not something Windows XP offers. Either you are using a tool like Rescue 911 at http://www.majorgeeks.com/download166.html or something else. Press start, run, help and support, type in rescue and it's zero hits. Tell more about this. It is worth noting that once I create the Rescue 911 diskette, I can use NERO to create a bootable CD with the files on said diskette as source.

Hope this helps,

Bob