installing a new operating system

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ok.. i had windows xp professional; and after it slowly deteriorated on
me, my computer will not start (it simply says operating system not
found). Because I bought my computer second hand I do not have a
replacement operating system disk. So I burned a copy of a friend of
mine's windows 2000, because she doesn't use it anymore, but still
wants to keep it. I put the disk in and started my computer (and tried
putting the disk in after it started as well) but it wont read the disk.
I think that my computer has to be on and at the desktop for the
installation thing to pop up, but does anyone have any suggestions on
commands I can type in so that it reads the disk, allowing me to
install it? I really cannot afford to get it fixed professionally; and
the disk should work because i tried it in a friends computer. Help!


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DRojo wrote:
> ok.. i had windows xp professional; and after it slowly deteriorated on
> me, my computer will not start (it simply says operating system not
> found). Because I bought my computer second hand I do not have a
> replacement operating system disk. So I burned a copy of a friend of
> mine's windows 2000, because she doesn't use it anymore, but still
> wants to keep it. I put the disk in and started my computer (and tried
> putting the disk in after it started as well) but it wont read the disk.
> I think that my computer has to be on and at the desktop for the
> installation thing to pop up, but does anyone have any suggestions on
> commands I can type in so that it reads the disk, allowing me to
> install it? I really cannot afford to get it fixed professionally; and
> the disk should work because i tried it in a friends computer. Help!
>
>


Once you've purchased a legitimate (a burned copy of a friend's CD
doesn't qualify) OS license of your own:

Simply boot from the Win2K installation CD. You'll be offered the
opportunity to delete, create, and format partitions as part of the
installation process. (You may need to re-arrange the order of boot
devices in the PC's BIOS to boot from the CD.)

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