My in-laws desktop spat it's hard drive recently.
So armed with a 'new' (from the spares pile) *IDE* drive and the original XP install media, I tried to rebuild it.
This was a pre-SP3 install disc, but I thought "M'eh - it will just do a week of updates."
But nope, wasn't to be. Can't download SP3 (legitimately) and all the help links back to microsoft are 404.
So I gave up and chucked Win7 at it.
Ah, XP, we will miss you....