glenafton.....First you need a floppy bootdisk.....I use a win98 bootdisk (it works just fine) .....A boot disk has a few files on it to start up your pc when there's no operating system. It must have both Format and Fdisk
on it. If you dont have one go to Bootdisk.com and D/L one. So shut down the pc ......insert the floppy in drive A : and start . when it loads and displays an A: prompt... FDISK and enter.... Fdisk will load and then choose option 4 ....display partitions ......once you see how its partitioned ....delete all partitions.. then check to be sure there are none left ( use option 4 ) when they are all removed ......at the A:prompt type
FORMAT C: you will get a warning saying you will lose all data do you wish to continue........answer YES press enter. now it will begin to format ....this will take a while....when its finished ....with the boot disk still in drive A reboot the machine .......when the A: prompt is displayed type D: ( or whatever your cd drive is ) and the A: prompt will change to D: ( or whatever ) now open the cd drive and put in the XP disk ....close the drive and type SETUP and enter ( If setup doesnt work use INSTALL) Now XP will start to load ......answer the questions and in about 40 minutes your done .......Dont forget to remove the floppy from drive A:......
Once XP is installed .......install your anti virus program....then go to Microsoft Update site and D/L the necessary updates .....now you will be able to D/L and install SP2 ......Now reinstall your programs and you back in business .
DONT forget to make a copy of your WAB ( windows address book ) then you wont lose your E mail address's.
Don't forget to activate Windows when your finished .
Hope this helps you .
dl65
