FFS Microsoft...get it right.

There you go man, keep as cool as you can, face piles of trials with smiles, for it riles them to believe you percieve the web that they weave.;)

Moody Blues.

Be careful with the Windows Genuine Advantage.:(
There have been many reports of WGA playing havoc with peoples activation, on Vista and also now XP. There seems to be a code conflict, and some times Microsoft's server will not identify your activation correctly, and you will get a report that your copy "may be pirated" and MS will do a backdoor partitial deactivation on you. XP must be activated to work, but deselect the WGA update when you get updates from MS, at least till ZDNet.com, and other security speciallists, give it the green light. ZDNet is a free to register site dedicated to computer and internet security, I get 4 or 5 emails from them per day, it is to be concerned over. Check them out, very informative.:(

Shorty.

Yes, my boat has sailed many stormy seas, Ive battled oceans full of tears, and still no port in view. And it would be a pleasant change if this good boy recieved a favour.

Two more MB references. Can you work them out or should I send you the complete set in MP3?

Shorty.

Seventh Soujourn is one of my favourites, I cheated of course. My kid brother (age 48) is a big MB fan, has everything ever produced. So I just used LPRecord, to rip and convert all MB albums of his to my puter. Every album, in MP3 format on 1 CD, want a copy?

Shorty.

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Originally Posted by MarknDeb

Mate use floppy and format the drive, set up the bios on next boot after format to boot from CDROM "with XP in Drive" and install fresh that way, if XP is an upgrade it will ask for an original disc or disk of an older version to complete the install as an upgrade.

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This is the easiest way to do a fresh install as you only need to put the win 98 disc in to prove you have it and then it will install from scratch otherwise if you upgrade you arent really doing a fresh install as old files are kept as backup.

now maybe i have missed something but i would have thought a much easier way to reinstall windows xp [ in this case] would be to boot of xp cd and click on r for recovery console.
use the format command and format C: , and then reboot off xp cd and it will ask you , where do u want to install windows to. just agree with c drive . install as normal.

if u are really struggling [ ie cannot clean drive b4 install] u could always use a manufacturer drive diagnostic tool and do a Low level format on your drive first .

if u want to make partitions u can also make all your partitions this way as well, and u can format them all before installing windows. this way you do not have to go back into windows and change drive letters of cd drives etc around after xp installation.
[ie to keep the dvd/cd drives at the end of the windows explorer tree. eg c drive = windows, d drive = partition 1, cd drive = e drive
i like to have dvd/cd drives at the end . not partitions after cd/dvd drives.