Tusko

so i throw in the winows xp disc (updated version) and it does the usual, i go to "update version" and such... i was tire of the crappier old xp and needed some new antivirus software (i had to remove my old one due to some conflicts)


blah blah blah, i wait 30 mins, and go back to check it.. and it's at that screen where you press f8 or whatever with the boot options (regular, safe mode etc.)

so anyway, i press regular, im like, yea, but, then it just flips the windows screen on, and goes back to the boot options screen. i press every option and nothing...


any ideas?





so, after a little while i try to hook up my hard drive as a slave to this computer. couldnt do that (it has a second hard drive) and i couldnt get it out. it's really in there. and the screws or whatever are on the other side, but that side of my pc doenst open up. heh, shitty.


i have, for some reason this scary feeling that my c: might have been wiped for some reason. scary scary...



most importantly i just want to check if it's aok. so my new plan is this:

since (i believe) win98 can install from DOS, im gonna do that. put on win98, make sure everythings fine (if it's not, well then man. that sucks) then, just proceed to reinstall winxp.


in doing this, will i wipe out any files that are there? (besides windows files...... and if they already havent been)...


will that work? or is there something else i should do?