Which drive I use to reformat my laptop

Hi I'm trying to reformat my laptop (the State when I bought).  I have a number of CD, but none of them said recovery on it.  Could someone let me know that I should use please?  I tried all the and was expecting a warning on them destroy my data etc. (common to all the recovery CDs), but do not see.  I kept all my CDs so I don't think I've lost one of them.  It is an old laptop so I don't want to spend money to buy if possible recovery disks.  Thank you!

Laptop model: HP Pavilion zv5220ca

(1) driver recovery CD
Contains software and drivers are already installed.  To reinstall the software and repair only
Discs 1 & 2

(2) the application recovery CD
Contains the software already installed. To reinstall the software and repair only.
1 disc

(3) the application recovery CD
Contains the software already installed. To reinstall the software and repair only.
1 disc

(4) operating system CD
Microsoft Windows XP Home SP1a
1 disc

Disc 4 is the one that you used to reformat because he would like to reinstall windows xp, once installed while you use disk 1 for the followed the 3 disk drivers.

So in order: -.

Disc 4 - CD of operating systems

Disc 1 - Driver recovery CD

Disc 3 - Application Recovery CD

But if you do not use the disk 4 do u ensure that all 1 backups before reformatting u otherwise, you will lose all your data.  Disc 3 is to restore your disks to the default factory setting which is want to do a restore of backups, but u wanted to reformat the disk 4 is 1.

Hope this helps, PJ.

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