if you have cable internet you should just download XP ,
but make sure you download
win xp pro corp.ISO
make sure its an iso and you will also need to download an iso burner, i use MagicISO which i got off of bearshare with a crack,
the reason why u would need to burn it as an ISO is because u want it to burn as a CD IMAGE rather than a normal data cd, reason with that is when u burn as cd image it will come out being the same exact thing as the real cd, meaning once your insert cd and then restart your computer, you will get
“Press any key to continue…” and it will load the cd from there
with a regular data cd, u will HAVE TO run it from My computer, which if you had 1 hard drive you will have bad luck because when the installation first runs and u continue the setup, it will save some files that it needs onto the harddrive
so later when u are gonna try to format the hard drive and install a fresh copy, u will get “cant do that because some of the needed files are on that hard disk”