Quote Originally Posted by purejoy
download the bootdisk from the link i posted

format the hard drive with it

then reload windows on the machine

it is the easiest, least confusing way
If its a windows xp disk, you dont need a boot disk, the cd is bootable...dont waste your time. Also, windows xp wont work off of a win98 boot disk. You need to make the 6 disk set, asuming th laptop has a floppy drive.....but why waste the time with floppys....JUST USE THE CD

Put your windows disk in the cd drive, reboot. It should say press any key to boot from cd.....press any key. follow the directions to format the hard drive then continue to install windows.

If it doesnt ask you to press any key to boot from cd, you'll need to enter the bios and change the cdrom to the first boot device, save and reboot with the cd installed.....

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