Nubius
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You shouldn't need any boot disks with winXP. If you've never changed your boot sequence before then it should probably be:
1. Floppy
2. CD-Rom
3. HDD-0
Put in your WinXP CD is all you have to do. No boot disks. Pop that CD in and you'll see text that says 'Press any key to boot from cd' and it gives you about 5 seconds to do so otherwise it's going to windows...so press a key and it'll load up the winXP installation....it should be pretty easy from there..
I don't know why you have all these boot disks or why your friend told you you need them as WinXP is just pop in the CD, format, and install.
You'll have to delete the partition on the C: Drive (it might not make sense now, but when you see it you'll know) It'll show you your hard drive with however big it is. You need to delete the partition it'll be showing there and then create another one. To delete it you select the partition and then hit D, then it'll ask you if you're sure and you hit L, then hit C to create a new partition and simply hit ENTER when it brings you to the next screen. Then it'll have the CREATE A PARTITION, DELETE A PARTITION, or SETUP WINDOWS ON PARTITION, so then you select your partition and hit ENTER and that'll choose that one to Format (format it in NTFS) and it'll start clearing files and copying what you need. Then when the computer restarts let it go past the cd-rom. Don't take the CD out, simply doesn't press a key to boot from the CD
1. Floppy
2. CD-Rom
3. HDD-0
Put in your WinXP CD is all you have to do. No boot disks. Pop that CD in and you'll see text that says 'Press any key to boot from cd' and it gives you about 5 seconds to do so otherwise it's going to windows...so press a key and it'll load up the winXP installation....it should be pretty easy from there..
I don't know why you have all these boot disks or why your friend told you you need them as WinXP is just pop in the CD, format, and install.
You'll have to delete the partition on the C: Drive (it might not make sense now, but when you see it you'll know) It'll show you your hard drive with however big it is. You need to delete the partition it'll be showing there and then create another one. To delete it you select the partition and then hit D, then it'll ask you if you're sure and you hit L, then hit C to create a new partition and simply hit ENTER when it brings you to the next screen. Then it'll have the CREATE A PARTITION, DELETE A PARTITION, or SETUP WINDOWS ON PARTITION, so then you select your partition and hit ENTER and that'll choose that one to Format (format it in NTFS) and it'll start clearing files and copying what you need. Then when the computer restarts let it go past the cd-rom. Don't take the CD out, simply doesn't press a key to boot from the CD