Windows fails to boot.

Is this XP disk an upgrade version to upgrade from 98 or 2k to XP?

not that i know of... its not the xp disc that came with the computer because that one doesnt exist... i have an old win Me disc in the garage, not sure if i could just put that in to make it work.

It sounds like it wants you to boot from that then upgrade to XP

I can give you a link to download and burn a bootable XP cd then you can just use your product key if you want, or you can try installing ME then upgrading.

What I am wondering is how did you install XP, Did you ever have ME on this mahcine? Did you ever dual-boot 2 OS's?

i never had anything but xp on this comp.. came that way... link to the bootable xp cd would be good.

OK, first do just like before hitting f8 at the EULA. then when it says whatever it said before hit escape and tell me what it says

doesnt do anything... only enter when cd is in drive or f3 to exit.

I thought esc would bypass the repair

what happens when you hit enter

it says something on the order of "invalid disc in drive, please re-insert. Press Enter when ready"

ok, we can do it the hard way with commands. You are going to lose data, let me know if you want to stop and try other things. This is the only other way I can think of

Restart, Hit R to get back to c:\ and type DISKPART

data meh... i just want the damn thing to work... trying that now.

delete part or create part?

Select the partition and press D

That will delete the partition

press enter

then press L to confirm

done........

Ok, now what do you have left

We are going to create a new partition next but I need to know what is left on the list

bunch of unknown drives and:

Unpartitioned Drive 131069mb available space

something like that...

Ok, there is 2 ways to do this we could turn that space into your C: drive

the simple way is to now select the remaining unpartitioned space, and then press C to create the new partition

Type the size in megabytes (MB) that you want to use for the new partition, and then press ENTER, or just press ENTER to create the partition with the maximum size

use the ARROW keys to select the partition where you want to install Windows XP, and then press ENTER

Select the format option that you want to use for the partition, and then press ENTER. You have the following options:
• Format the partition by using the NTFS file system (Quick) <- for windows partition

After the Windows Setup program formats the partition, follow the instructions that appear on the screen to continue. After the Windows Setup program is completed, you can use the Disk Management tools in Windows XP to create or format more partitions. I would recommend adding an additional partition later for storing data, and leave this one for XP

to be specific:

Unknown Drive

(There is no disk in this drive.)

[Four of those}

then..

131070 MB Disk at Id 0 on Bus 0 on ATAPI [MBR]

Unpartitioned Space 131069 MB

Do the unknown partitions have any size or are the 0MB

when i highlight the new partition and press Enter nothing happens? do i need to go somewhere different to format the partition?

they have 0mb.. well now the new one has 131~ and the other has 8mb all the others are 0