eMachine 5260 crashed because of the virus. How can I reinstall XP Home Edition OS?

My 5 year old eMachine 5260 crashed due to a virus.  Had to buy a new HP with Windows 7 Desktop to enable the family to continue to work.  It's a shame simply throw the eMachine.  Could I check if the HARD drive does not work, remove everthing that was on it and then buy an XP Home Edition Operating System with COST, no matter the eMachine was XP Home Edition OEM installed which I can't do anything with it?  eMachines said that the office is more than 5 years and they cannot send recovery discs, although they said that the disc 3 of 4 may have corrupted, that's why she is not going to fix.  Would really appreicate your kind advice.

The game, October 7, 2010 21:54:24 + 0000, SPECOM wrote:

Dear Ken, thank you for you advice

You are welcome. Happy to help you...

and I'd be curious to know how to delete everything on the HARD drive, as I save everything.

You simply start from the CD and follow the prompts for cleaning
installation. The new facility will begin formatting the
drive.

Keep in mind, however, that your backup data is fine, but if
you have backed up the programs, which don't help you. Your programs will be
must be reinstalled from the original media.

Ken Blake (MS-MVP)

Tags: Windows

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