well to start with, xp was never limited by the 137gb partition size, last one I know of that was is ME. And no outdated software should make you have to revert to sp1, everything ought to be backwards compatible between the security packs, they're not different os's or anything. But reverting to sp1 could definitely cause problems, did for me awhile back. I had sp1 forever, decided to get sp2, but couldn't from Microsoft.com (my serial wasn't exactly mine). SO i downloaded it off another site, installed it and ran my computer. It started doing some just weird stuff I didn't like, for instance my desktop icons might not show up, so I tried reverting to sp1. The computer supposedly did so, but upon restart, all sorts of things were messed up, like outside of safe mode, all I wold see is my desktop background and nothing else, no toolbar or anything. So I had to reformat. Back to your question, I would try the hard drive in a computer other than the one you already did cause unless you formatted, there should be something on there.
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