Need help for PAVILON A350N

If I can get it for cheep I'll buy a a350n but the HDrive is wiped
clean and the DVD/CD burner is broken. would Win 2000 Pro or XP Pro
work ok or should I just use XP Home.
I have a extra Lite-On LDW-451S DVD burner with Nero 7 will this work?

Thanks for any help.

fadeToblack <> wrote:
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> If I can get it for cheep I'll buy a a350n but the HDrive is wiped
> clean and the DVD/CD burner is broken. would Win 2000 Pro or XP Pro
> work ok or should I just use XP Home.

For these kinds of questions, you can just search the "Support &
Trouble Shooting" or/and "Software & Driver Downloads" sections of the
HP site on the product name/number, i.e. in this case "Pavilion a350n".

That lists "Microsoft Windows XP", so while you might get Windows 2000
to work, you can't expect any support or software for that on the HP
site.

I don't know of any reason - other than memory or/and disk capacity -
why a system would support/work_with XP Home, but not XP Professional
(or vice versa). Of course there might be different hardware/software
support for *additional* functionality, but the basic OS should not be a
problem.

> I have a extra Lite-On LDW-451S DVD burner with Nero 7 will this work?

Assuming that Nero 7 is supported on the OS, yes.