Help Reloading XP

[my4sons]

Help!! I had a perfectly fine running system with Win XP, but decided to try somethings with Win98, so I formatted my C: drive and tried to load Win 98. Now I can't even reload XP. For both I get this message: DISK BOOT FAILURE, INSERT SYSTEM DISK AND PRESS ENTER. Any ideas?

 

[kinetic_tw]

That just means that your pc isnt finding any operating system to boot to. If you're wanting to reinstall WinXP, go into your BIOS and change your boot order so the CDROM is first. From there, insert your WinXP disk and reboot the computer. Setup should automatically take over and give you the option to partition, format, and reinstall. After WinXP is done installing, go back into your BIOS and change your boot order so the hard drive is first (or do FDD, HDD, CD).

 

[my4sons]

Thanks, but I've got my BIOS set to boot from floppy before the hard drive. Any other ideas?

 

[kinetic_tw]

If you tell your BIOS to boot from CD, you'll be able to boot from the WinXP disk and install Windows.