Ya a 6 yr old drive is a pretty long lived one!
OK if you dont have a CD then i dont really know what to do...
Tiger Direct or something like that sells new hard drives for a grear
bargain
www.tigerdirect.ca
www.tigerdirect.com
You can probably buy windows XP or something like that for really
cheap. Or you can go to another computer and download an image of XP or
something like that to a CD but Microsoft needs Beta Testers for
Windows Vista so maybe u can get that!
If you do get or have a CD then:
you can either press F11 or F12 at startup or if that doesnt work get a
Windows 98 Floppy bootup disk (I have a copy so i can email it to you
if you like and you can put it on a floppy disk). Make sure that you CD
and floppy drive are INSIDE the CD drive and floppy disk drive (usually
A
when you start the computer
Next step:
It will say "Booting Windows 98, please wait." this DOESN'T INSTALL
windows 98!!!!
Then the screen will go black and give you 3 options select "Boot from
CD"
Then the screen will go black and the command prompt will come it. Type
in:
Format c:\
are you sure you want to format C Drive? All data will be lost
(Dont for get to make a backup copy of all your files b4!!!)
Choose Yes if you want to format
then leave it and it will format
name the drive whatever you like (It'll probably ask you to)
then go to D:\ or whatever the CD drive is
type in Setup.exe
and install Windows!!!!!
if you want a copy of the boot disk email me at (e-mail address removed)
and i'll reply to your email and attatch the file k?
Dont worry, no viruses. you can scan it too if yo like for viruses or
ad aware...im not the kind of person who likes harming computers
or if you dont feel safe with that you can always download it off the
internet somewhere....just google it...
Ask me if you need any help!
Benjamin