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theburner · 08-03-2004, 11:45 AM

Whoa.. First off, when your system finishes post boot (beeps) it goes to your monitor. As soon as it hits your monitor, you should look for a line that says "Hit F2 to enter setup" or something similar. May be Del, F2, F10.. It varies.. Repeadidly hit that button, and you will enter your bios.
From the bios you can change the boot order. You want to change it from current (which is probably Floppy, HDD, CD) to CD, HDD.
Then hit F10 to exit and save changes. Make sure XP disk is in CD Tray, and reboot shout start up windows installation. It will guide you along the way, but I would 100% recommend reformatting the ENTIRE HDD in the NTFS file system. Don't do quick format, that is living on borrowed time.
Your 98 uses Fat 32 file system I think, so you really do want to format the ENTIRE HDD. Once it is formatted you are on your way.

Good luck.

08-03-2004, 11:45 AM	#4 (permalink)
theburner Canadian Beer Ambassador Location: Cumming, GA	Whoa.. First off, when your system finishes post boot (beeps) it goes to your monitor. As soon as it hits your monitor, you should look for a line that says "Hit F2 to enter setup" or something similar. May be Del, F2, F10.. It varies.. Repeadidly hit that button, and you will enter your bios. From the bios you can change the boot order. You want to change it from current (which is probably Floppy, HDD, CD) to CD, HDD. Then hit F10 to exit and save changes. Make sure XP disk is in CD Tray, and reboot shout start up windows installation. It will guide you along the way, but I would 100% recommend reformatting the ENTIRE HDD in the NTFS file system. Don't do quick format, that is living on borrowed time. Your 98 uses Fat 32 file system I think, so you really do want to format the ENTIRE HDD. Once it is formatted you are on your way. Good luck. __________________ Take Off Eh!