bad copy of xp

[Jay]

Depends on who you bought it from, IBM for example has
the recovery disk where you can reinstall over an
existing "bad" install windows, I would check into that
once.
Jeremy


>-----Original Message-----
>I bought my computer with xp installed. It must be a
bad
>copy or illegal one, because I cannot get updates.
>
>Can I purchase a new OEM copy and install over this one?
>
>Thanks
>.
>