Recovery discs for windows XP (emachines) wont recover!

[doddsyy2k]

Hello there. ive had my emachines E4076 (windows xp, media centre edition version 2002) for around 3 years. It became cluttered and VERY slow so im deciding to use the recovery disks and reinstall the operating system and clearing all personal files.

I used the operating system disk and rebooted. I got to the menus which asked for disc one of the 2 disc recovery disks i burnt when i first got the pc. this started the recovery process. It then asked for the second disc and continued. at around 50% it then said instalation incomplete please insert disc one . I did and it repeated the process. This went on 8 or 9 times so there is obviously a problem so i quit and restarted.

my C: drive is exactly the same as it was before. no problem BUT now the recovery drive D: has a changed icon (it is now a black chip image and when i open this drive i am presented with 2 files. System restore and a file called PROD which has no icon and is 1kb in size.

added: Details
RECOVERY(D:)
Local disk
File system FAT32
Free space 2.31 gb
Total size 4.65 gb



any advice on re-installing? 

[patio]

You could try borrowing an MS XP CD...as long as the versions match and you have a liscense key for the machine this is perfectly legal...
The 2 reasons this may be happening would be dirty CD's and/or a failing CD drive...

[doddsyy2k]

You could try borrowing an MS XP CD...as long as the versions match and you have a liscense key for the machine this is perfectly legal...
The 2 reasons this may be happening would be dirty CD's and/or a failing CD drive...

Maybe a failing drive (yet i can burn and play disks without a hitch) and the CDs are perfect. they were burnt around 3 years ago and kept in a case unopened and safe until a few days back. Looks like ill have to try and track down a XP media centre edition disk


Any more advice from peeps would be great!