OMG- Computer Dead!

[kai0ty]

Your CD drive is control from the hard drive--which you erased. You have to put in your windows backup floppy disk to get started. Then go to the computers bios to swith the primary drive to the cd drive--I think.

actually tom, it isnt. teh cdrom drive like all otehr hardware is controled by the motherboard (mainboard if ya nasty ) and he cud just put the CD in an turn on his computer, though he would have to change the boot order to CDROM first (del enters my bios, and u cant "click" on advanced, u need to use the keyboard)

[M&M]

I just installed xp over windows ME.
I made a boot disk first, formatted me hard drive then rebooted w/boot disk, then did an install w/xp.

u could have just upgraded !!!!
but i guess a clean install is better

This is why if you leave a floppy in the drive, that is not a boot disk you get an error. If you have a boot disk to install XP that should be easier, but the hastle of finding one...

thats exactly my point !!!!
with the cd u could just jump into the install right away
but 1st u have to change the boot order .and if u had a non bootable cd in there after changing the order ,nothing happens .the system just loads up as normal as b4 .however if u have1 ,the system will boot from the cd .so if u dont want that ,change the order back .
it shouldnt be more than 20 clicks(on keyboard buttons)

[ziptie2k2]

Let us know if you fixed it big head.