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wintomato · 02-25-2003, 08:05 AM

Hi Mikey
when starting your computer, you should see something on the screen telling you to "Press F2 to enter setup" When pressed during start, F2 should task you through to a BIOS setup screen. Depending on your BIOS you should see an option that says "Boot Sequence" use you cursor keys to go down to that selection and press enter (or whatever it tells you ) to enter that area, you should then see instructions on how to put the CD Rom to the top of the list in the boot sequence.
Now when you exit and save changes with the winxp cd in the drive it should start from there, with a menu that asks if you want to do a fresh installation. choose that, then you should see a screen about partitions, select whatever partitions you see and delete them, then create one and do a fresh installation on that new partition of winxp. The rest should be fairly simple to follow.
Good luck and welcome to the forums, there are plenty of great knowledgeable people on here.

02-25-2003, 08:05 AM	#6
wintomato Member (8 bit) Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: London Posts: 157	Hi Mikey when starting your computer, you should see something on the screen telling you to "Press F2 to enter setup" When pressed during start, F2 should task you through to a BIOS setup screen. Depending on your BIOS you should see an option that says "Boot Sequence" use you cursor keys to go down to that selection and press enter (or whatever it tells you ) to enter that area, you should then see instructions on how to put the CD Rom to the top of the list in the boot sequence. Now when you exit and save changes with the winxp cd in the drive it should start from there, with a menu that asks if you want to do a fresh installation. choose that, then you should see a screen about partitions, select whatever partitions you see and delete them, then create one and do a fresh installation on that new partition of winxp. The rest should be fairly simple to follow. Good luck and welcome to the forums, there are plenty of great knowledgeable people on here.