Reinstall XP Pro?

OK, I've had this laptop in my basement, gathering dust... So now, I tried to use it as an emergency equipment in the garage just for surfing and facebook... YES I KNOW! In any case, I had to format the hard drive and lost the OS. Is it possible to reinstall the operating system if you have lost the product key. I use windows XP Pro? Like I said it's an old computer and I lost the product key

If you have no product key and no disk, and the HD was formatted, you are probably out of luck unless you can call the computer manufacturer and inquire about the purchase of installation media, etc.  Generally, if the manufacturer has available disks, they are cheap.

It is also possible, if you don't erase it when you reformatted the HD, that your laptop has a restore partition.  Check your owner's manual or contact the manufacturer to find out about it.

Otherwise, if this laptop is something you don't want to spend the money and there is no restore partition, then you can consider using something like Ubuntu.

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