windows does t setup

[robo2337]

I have a 2000 IBM 600E Thinkpad. I got it from a friend and she tried to load Windows xp pro. Well she didn"t finish the setup and it will not load. I made a dos boot disk and tried to load basic windows 3.1 and the computer says that " Setup is unable to create the specified directory on the specified drive" It says that I can choose a different path but I do not Know all that much so I need some help.

[merlin_2]

does it have a cdrom drive ....go in to  the bios f1 and change the boot sequence to boot from cdrom..what is the previous o/s on it...if it has none and this laptop with the right ram etc can handle winxp pro...its best to download a win98 disk format the hard drive and fdisk it ..