I got some mad virus's on my pc and cant get rid of them so im going to format the the os hardrive, but i need a bootdisk so i can delete the ntfs partition and then make a new 1,.. and then format the new partion and then install windows, but... my windows version on cd is windows xp pro, i downloaded a bootdisk off the microsoft site and it ISNT working. it comes up with an error ....

C:\DOCUME~1\CHRIS~1\LOCALS~1\Temp\IXP000.TMP\Makeboot.exe

C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\AUTOEXEC.NT.The system file is not suitable for running MS - Dos and Microsoft Windows applications. Choose 'Close" to terminate the application.  

that comes up with all the bootdisks iv tried so is their any other way of making a bootdisk??!!

thanx for your helpDrGt, using just your Windows XP Pro cd you can erase a partition and recreate it, and also format it. It will be formated automatically if you indicate the destination partition of Windows XP the new created partition. The only condition is to SET the boot order in BIOS correctly (I mean boot from cd should be enabled and also it should ocure before the option to boot from hdd). Tell us if you solved your problem.no im not sure what u mean, im not that great with computers but i did go to the bios and looked for the boot from cd option but it werent on their  Boot SEQUENCE then? First boot device, second boot device? There should be SOMETHING like that, I have seen no BIOS WITHOUT these settings...yeah i can see whta u mean now, the next problem is that the windows pro cd i have is not retail, its a copy and isnt a system boot disc, do u think i cud get the data off the copy'd disk and make a system disc with nero?DrGt........
"I got some mad virus's on my pc and cant get rid of them "

Do these mad viruses have a name ?
What anti virus software are you using ?

let us know

dl65  Just formatted and things are well fast, thanx for your help