Will a XPS 410 operating system disk work on a regulaer XP?
So I have lots of viruses and such on my computer and I here that if you crash your computer it will delete everything on your computer plus viruses. I kind of want to crash it on perpahs after saving all the stuff I want to keep on a MyBook thing. So I can use someone else's operating systems disk that is a XPS 410 but my computer is just a plan XP. I don't know much about this stuff and I don't feel like taking to big of risks. Plus I feel that, that is illegal? So does anyone know for sure whether using their disk will work or not? If it helps, my computer is about three years old and their's is about 2.5 years old.