How can I re - format a computer bought at a garage sale with a new copy of Windows XP?

I bought 2 old dell P/C for next to nothing at the garage sale, the former owner had 1 password but not for the other, I have the hard drive erased 2nd need n o/s to download n boot up so that my wife can have his own general insurance to facebook! Please help in anyway cheap n possible, and if I had the money to buy the new disk would not selection obsolete shopped in the Department and trashy neighborhoods hand! LOL, all had two X / home of P? any advice? Is it possible to copy the o/s of master drive to the slave drive? Thank you

original title: HELPME

You'll need to get the correct disks and perform a "clean installation" see: How to ask Dell backup discs.

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