Boot to a windows 98 floppy and at the prompt type fdisk and erase all partitions then reboot to same floppy and type format c/ at the prompt.Hi i don't have no back-up disk for any windows
some one else used there's to put windows on mine
So is that going to be a SECOND hard drive in the new COMPUTER? If so, that's an easy fix.No it will be the only one, but its got a different windows set up to the one that the motherboard as and i have no back-up disk for any windows but i do have a cd call drives & utilities version 8.01 which came with the new computerAs mentioned in the other thread you MUST have a legal copy of Windows to install (to make Bill GATES happy). The other CD is just for drivers to get your hardware to function with Windows, once it gets loaded.

Linux is free if you can get a list of your hardware, CPU, RAM, hard drive size, make/model of motherboard, sound card, vieo card, etc. I can advise there.When you have finished building your new computer just set the cdrom as first boot device in bios then boot the computer with your OS disk in the cdrom.
W2k & XP will both format & partition for you.I've try'd that and it didn't work it keeps going to a page that say safe mode
safe mode and blab blab
safe mode and prompt command
windows start normal
don't know whats programed on motherboard
how do i make a back-up for my xpYou are stuck until you get a legal Windows to load. Until then you will always get that message. What you are WANTING to do cannot be done (legally).

Are you saving your changes in bios correctly?
If you set the cdrom to first boot & boot with the OS cd in the cdrom then it should work. No question.
Are you sure?