| As allready mentioned before to other bods.
If you have nothing important to save etc, and don't mind losing other bits etc, just start a fresh.
stick in a new drive( make sure it's set as master or single drive on back of drive), bios should pick up an IDE based drive straight away, if bios is on auto detect drive setting that is, otherwise choose auto detect.
Also make sure that bios is set to read CDROM drive first, to ensure you can boot properly from the CD.
Save bios settings.
reboot the PC, and stick in the XP disk, rest is self explanatory.
unless you are into lots of partitions etc, stick with just one, and let XP do its work.
just a brief overview, if you need more in depth info, let me know.
any probs, give me a call mate.
cheers
robin | 
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