quick question,
when you buy a laptop or computer is it supposed to come with a CD inside??
my friend bought a laptop and it did, and i bought one too but no CDs came with it, and my old XP desktop didn't come with one either when i bought it..

it probably should have a restore disc or something.
did you by from different brands? maybe the brand you bought from just happens to not do that.

You should have got a disc. Did you try telling the retailer the issue?

fyi it's the serial number you're paying for, not the disk. Grab an untouched ISO somewhere off the net.

well the desktop was Compaq and the only CD that came with was for the Office free trial, and the laptop is Toshiba Satellite.. & i didnt ask Office depot(where i bought the laptop)

Or borrow a friend's CD. What is it? XP? Anyone who knows about computers and isn't poor has an XP disk lying around.

on my old computer yes.. but i was just wondering. i should prob. call office depot & complain haha

Hi,
You should have got a disc
Thanks.

^ Wtf?

I don't know. I thought they were going to start selling computers without operating systems sometime soon, I heard. But do what CJ said, and get an untouched copy of Windows XP.

There are TONS of them out there so it should not be difficult in the slightest to find it.

HP/Compaq doesn't sell computers with OS disks. Instead, they partition your hard drive and load a backup from there.