installing a new operating system

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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.

"DRojo" wrote:

>
> Bruce Chambers Wrote:
> > 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!
> >  
> >
> > -
> >
> >
> > 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.)
> >
> > --
> >
> > Bruce Chambers
> >
> > Help us help you:
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> > http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
> >
> > You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don't ever count on
> > having
> > both at once. - RAH
>
>
>
> 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!
>
>
> --
> DRojo
>

Archived from groups: microsoft.public.windowsxp.help_and_support (More info?)

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.
>
>> 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!
>>
>>
>> --
>> DRojo
>>

You can download a bootdisk from here:

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

Peter

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Peter