got a little problem...

[greyzor]

i just recently purchased a computer from a business going out of business and after they moved away, i found that there is novell on it as well as passwords that i dont know. i think that i have to reinstall windows xp....but i dont have the original disk. i just bought a new set of xp software but dont have any clue on how to reinstall it. if anyone could help this computer illiterate person, it would be greatly appreciated. thanks ahead of time.

[lil Jimmie]

If the cd-rom is bootable set the bios to boot to the XP cd and when promted by the setup delete the existing partitions on the hard drive and then create a new partition, format and install.