I bought my pc from a retailer who sold me the pc without the op(its a small retailer and i think he does build is the pc for sale) as i had win2k already and i got the system $170Aus cheaper which being an 18yo female uni student is a lot of money to me. I got it home, installed win2k and everything was fine till i tried to start the pc up later on. Thats when it failed to load windows and stopped with the "freedos_". However, as i said it will load windows if the windows cd is in the drive. As was explained to me earlier freedos is a program. I am ignorant of most things pc but do i have to remove freedos and if so how.