he should contact the computer manufacturer, many of them have a low cost option for recovery disks. On Fri, 18 Jul 2008 18:02:00 -0700, JerHekSr wrote: >A friend of mine got a virus on his computer, and ask me to try and fix it. I >have removed the virus and various trojans/adware/spyware, but the OS is >still corrupt. I tried System Restore to no avail, it sayed the restore was >successfull but the OS is still corrupt. He does not have the installation >disk or a back up, for me to use to repair the OS. >He has Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005, is there somewhere I can >download the OS without having to BUY it? -- Barb Bowman MS-MVP http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone/meetexperts/bowman.mspx http://blogs.digitalmediaphile.com/barb/ ...