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Hey Long story, I have my girlfriends laptop here, which got seriously messed up by she thinks her bro. Anyway, it used to have Windows 98SE on it but somehow he partion has been deleted and now theres nothing left on it. When you boot up it goes to the Black screen with the white flashing line lol. I have an extra copy of windows XP and tried to boot from the cd. When I did it it all seemed to be fine untill after it said 100% done an error came up saying there was a problem with the disc. I dont know why as this particular version of XP used to be installed on my older computer before I bought a new one. I really need some help with this guys. Preferebly Id like to get XP on there from the disc I mentioned, but I thought maybe if that isnt possible I could install ME. I have my parents old computer downstairs which isnt used anymore. It came with ME but no disc, I know its possible to do so as Ive seen it before but maybe someone could tell me how to copy this ME from my rents old PC onto a disc so I can boot it onto the laptop. It wont be running on two machines or anything illegal (I know your policy ). Thanks for the help again - Ill really appriciate it as I have to try and do this quickly to help my gf with her teacher training.

Cheers

WARNING - Installing Windows Millennium will damage your PC, your sanity and your social life

I wonder what the prob with your XP install is...did you complete a full removal of the partition (+format) during the installation process? Also, what file system did you elect to format with? FAT32 or NTFS?

hey man am I glad to see you - you know if i dont get this sorted ill be sleeping on the couch haha

I removed the partian fully - im pretty sure. I choose NTFS - I wasnt sure if that was right but I thought so. Thanks for the warning about ME but if thats all I can get Ill have to take it Insanity or not - lol

Let me do some research and I'll get back to you soon

Thanks Hengis - Im here all day. Id really run out of ideas.

Ok, I going to need you to do a couple of things;

1) Really clean the CD so that it is spotless
2) Take the CD Rom drive out of the laptop and re-seat it firmly (check the contacts for dust etc)
3) Go for a re-install - Delete the existing partition - re-format (FULL) with NTFS (note the amount of free space on your new partition)
4) If you experience the same error, note down the full error message with any codes etc.

I really don't want you to have to resort to ME, let us know how it goes.

Cheers - I'll get right to that now Starting with the disc clean