Hello,
I'm trying to upgrade my old OS (WIN98 SE) to WIN XP. But my PC does not boot from the CD ROM. I kept XP installation disk in CD drive and restarted it, I changed settings in setup to select CD drive as boot drive but no go. I disabled hard disk booting, then I got error MESSAGE "no OS found" but it never accessed the CD ROM.

Then I ran WIN98 and from My computer, ran setup.exe for WIN XP from CD drive. After a while, when the PC restarted on its own, it offered two choices (continue with XP setup; cancel XP Set up) UPON selecting "continue XP setup", I get error message "hal.DLL not found" and rebooting occurs......

Can anybody HELP me with this. Is this a bad idea to upgrade such an old PC or to just throw it away. (Its just 10GB, 550 MHz,128MB HP)
Thanks, PBK.XP is going to be dissapointing at BEST on that machine...have you considered adding some RAM ? ?
As far as getting it installed i would travel to bootdisk.com and DLoad the Win98SE with CDRom support file and use it to create a bootable floppy.
Boot to the newly CREATED floppy and at the A: prompt type R: and hit Enter
At the R: prompt type setup and hit enter and the setup will commence...