well, if you formated your computer sometime before you wont have problems, the firts time i did it, i spend 5 hours reinstalling the windows, now i take up to half an hour and do this each 15 days, just to see my pc in max speed!


dont need to give it back your pc like anwii says: ''ask for your money back because your gonna spend more time than it's worth to get this computer going''

firts thing to do:

1-create a floopy disk with windows 98 boot oy a cd-rom with windows 98 boot
2- when your computer starts press one of the functions on the keyboard (f1, f2...) i dont remember witch one you have to press.
3- select to start your pc from the floopy that you created or from de cd-rom your created...
4- if that works, great! the hard part is already over, just go fdisk and go follow the options in screen until there is an option to reformat yout hard drive....
5- after reformating and fixing your master boot just poweroff and put your windows xp cd-rom on drive (if you have, if you dont have xp you''ll have to buy one or ... )
6- Install windows xp.
7- search for your hardware drivers if you dont have the drivers cds. try ''everest'' a program that says your drivers
8- install your programs
9- enjoy

Hope it work!!!!! if dont, send pm me for some part you didnt understand.

 

 

 

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Other than it's completely useless to do it every 15 days... yeah the more often you do it the better you get.



I'll correct this a little:
1- make sure you have a bootable xp cd, every legal version should fulfil this criteria
2- go into the bios and make sure "boot from cd" is enabled, respectively that your cd drive is selected as a boot drive
3- turn off, insert cd, turn on, hit any key to boot from cd when it asks you to
4- follow instructions and install windows

You don't need to create a floppy disk nowadays, PCs can boot from the cd and you can format your drive during the installation.

 

 

 

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Bad partition - this is easy. Options are
If the HDD had been partitioned with NTFS already - do this --->
1 - set BIOS to boot with the winxp CD, select to install windows, delete the partition, recreate it and continue on to format and install winxp
2 - OR set BIOS to start with win98 floppy, boot up and select CD Support, change to your winxp CD (drive), change to i386 - run winnt - go thru the winxp installation - deleting, recreating, formatting partitions, install windows

OR slave your hdd onto another winnt based machine and blow away the partion (never touch the small OEM on the hdd if this is an OEM machine)

If somehow it is FAT32 (highly unlikely as its OEM)
Just run fdisk and delete/recreate partions

Alternatively - OEM PCs come with Recovery CDs - you can try running this to reinstall winxp

Note - dont delete the OEM partion thats already on the Harddrive (small partition).

If you asked me - I had an OEM PC once - it had a winxp recovery CD - first thing I did - blow away the OEM partion - install winxp from my retail CD - get drivers and install other apps - all good. Last time I saw my recovery CD.

Let me know if you're still having problems - had worked for Microsoft Desktop for over 5 years this stuff is music to my ears. Theres more options than the above - post any messages you get and information like:

Brand of PC
Did it come with a recovery CD?
How big is the HDD
Win98 floppy ?
Errors yes errors important

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it seem that the mbr of your hard drive was damged. you can got a dos or windows 98 boot disk and run this command fdisk /mbr, then re-install the OS you want to use. : ]

hope this help .

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