Long story short, unless you or your cousin has the restore media for the laptop, or possibly the restore media is on the laptop HDD, you're kind of SOL unless you go out and buy a copy of Windows. You can contact the manufacturer of the laptop and see if they would be willing to send you a copy of the restore media for a small fee, but if it was running XP there's a good chance they no longer have copies of the restore media to send.
For numerous legal reasons, you would want to completely wipe all software off of the computer, so if for any number of reasons you're not able to put Windows on there, it might be a good opportunity to learn a little about Linux. Or just sell the laptop to someone else.
got a used laptop from a family member who moved out of the county for new job.
I am trying to wipe the system clean and reinstall XP and am unsuccessful.
I cant get into the "Admin" account (user) on the computer...not sure i need to? Perhaps there is another way? the user (my cousin) has limited rights. her previous company went out of business and let employees keep their laptops.
Please help. Thank you
Danielle

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