installing a new operating system

[DRojo]

DRojo wrote:-
ok.. i had windows xp professional; and after it slowly deteriorated
on
me, my computer will not start (it simply says operating system not
found). Because I bought my computer second hand I do not have a
replacement operating system disk. So I burned a copy of a friend of
mine's windows 2000, because she doesn't use it anymore, but still
wants to keep it. I put the disk in and started my computer (and
tried
putting the disk in after it started as well) but it wont read the
disk.
I think that my computer has to be on and at the desktop for the
installation thing to pop up, but does anyone have any suggestions on
commands I can type in so that it reads the disk, allowing me to
install it? I really cannot afford to get it fixed professionally;
and
the disk should work because i tried it in a friends computer. Help!


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Once you've purchased a legitimate (a burned copy of a friend's CD
doesn't qualify) OS license of your own:

Simply boot from the Win2K installation CD. You'll be offered the
opportunity to delete, create, and format partitions as part of the
installation process. (You may need to re-arrange the order of boot
devices in the PC's BIOS to boot from the CD.)

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It's me again... I received a real, legitimate, Windows 98 today. I
got it from my aunt who does not use it anymore, and uses XP.. But I'm
still having the same problem! The guy at the computer store said that
maybe my computer doesn't automatically boot from disks, and that my
computer might have to be reformatted in order to install it.. Is there
any way that I can avoid paying someone to do this.. and do it myself?
There must be some command that you can type in to make your computer
start reading a disk! I thought the windows 98 (although I would much
prefer XP) would solve the problem, but no matter what it wont start
spinning the disk when I put it in. Note to anyone out there as naive
as I was: Don't buy a used computer without making sure you receive the
operating system disk with it!

 

[Guest]

Some older computers cannot read a CD without a driver loaded, and some older
computers will not boot with a CD. You need to make a bootable floppy disk.
This can be done from any other computer running your windows version. Or
take the Windows installation CD to another computer and make the floppy from
there. I cannot remember how to do it, but I am sure it can be done.

 

[Peter Anderson]

Josh brought next idea :

Some older computers cannot read a CD without a driver loaded, and some older
computers will not boot with a CD. You need to make a bootable floppy disk.
This can be done from any other computer running your windows version. Or
take the Windows installation CD to another computer and make the floppy from
there. I cannot remember how to do it, but I am sure it can be done.

You can download a bootdisk from here:

http://www.bootdisk.com/bootdisk.htmHTH

Peter

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