When I tried it last night, I just wanted to redo. At first the disk told me that the xp version I was trying to redo was newer than that on the cd. I thought that strange because it is the exact cd used to install the software several years ago. So, I tried to do system recovery and it stated that a file was corrupted and shut down. Happened a couple of times. When I built this computer many years back, I just bought what I wanted to use hardware wise, and purchased the software through Tigerdirect I believe. Not sure because it is the only xp version I have or have used.