gateway le 500 came loaded w/ windows me. I tried to upgrade this thing a couple of years ago and didn't delete the old partition before installing the windows xp. since then, it won't let me into windows at all, either version. what should I do about this. I have lost the windows xp software also.
Well you will NEED to load some form of Windows on there to make it functional. Do you have ANY CD's? If no,you will need to get ONE, your pick which.no, but can I create a recovery disk from another computer, such as an hp??No, those are geared to a particular make and model number and it will not work. (Even if it did, you would be violating the EULA. That means piracy to Bill Gates!)That won't do enough, I'm afraid. what are my options. when I reboot the computer the gateway logo shows then it goes to the screen that asks if you want to load in safe mode ETC..., no matter what i pick it will say windows xp home edition for about 1 second, then a blue screen next ( which I think is a error screen) for about 1 second then it restarts again. the error screen doesnt stay long enough for me to know what it's saying.See the first response up there. will the 6 boot disks that i keep reading about help any?...........

I'm tempted to leave my post at that, but that would be confusing. Yes, if you have bootdisks, that would be of great assistance to you.Without a Windows CD to install with, what are you going to do with bootdisks?xp home edition is installed on the computer but it does some kind of error message then reboots. I was thinking maybe I could use the boot disks to get to the screen that would allow me to delete a partition, and make windows xp work correctly. Maybe i'm ways from reality in thinking this way. I would just hate to spend another $100 on a another upgrade cd, I would rather go back to windows me, if that's possible. I'm open for any suggestions.Do you still have the COA, if not the XP software? If you have the COA and #, you could reload a friends software using your legal number, if it is the same Home and Service Pack you purchased.From Wikipedia:

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A boot disk is a removable digital data storage MEDIUM, normally read-only, that can load (boot) an operating system or utility program.

GX1_Man, if XP is loaded on the machine, and the bootdisks for it are there, could it not allow nsy to at least back up important files? Forgive me if I'm wrong, but I have to know this.