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Ronnie

Hi,
I have an old computer given to me by a friend and it had
windows 98 on there and the internet wouldn't work
right. So my son was trying to help me and put in his
windows xp recovery disc in and it tried to install that
but then gave him some kind of error and to make a long
story short he cleaned the drives to where there is
nothing on them. I have a windows xp upgrade disc but it
says that it can't boot the system with this disc. I
need a bootable disc to put in first. Anyone know what
that is and if I would be better off just throwing this
thing out the window. It is driving me crazy!! Thanks
 
If the Windows 98 OS were on the system you could simply stick the XP
upgrade disk in and boot from the cd. You would then be asked to insert the
Windows 98 disk to prove you have a legitimate Windows OS to upgrade from.
However, you now have a formatted disk with no operating system on it.
Install Windows 98, if you have the disk, and then do the XP install. By
the way, you can do a full install of XP this way. Select to format and
install XP when prompted.
 
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