Wow!
Hey Andy, thanks for that. Right;
If your friend has the original win 98 disk (and is going to format)then there is no problem ! All you need to do if you have not got the original boot floopy is head over to bootdisk.com and download teh relevant bootdisk...the instructions are on the site, then make sure she has saved all of the info and files she needs saved ont0 cd or other media. In the bios make sure it is set to boot from floppy first then put floppy in the drive and restart and follow the installation process (which will incllude a format that will get rid of all traces of xp)!
This is what i believe she is doing, but it doesn't seem to wanna play. I shall download said item so she can try that too. She's much better at this side of compootas than I am, so i shall relay all of this and see if she understands the deal. Then follow this thread up accordingly.
KDS yea as butler said u need to format the hard-drive. back up all the data you want and download all the drives as win98 not good in finding it's own drivers as XP
Handy to know too..i shall look into that, Thanks.
Unicast All good advice so far, but this is a backward step in my opinion.
Right, i never put why..oops. Reason is...her pc is in need of a zimmer frame. It always ran on 98...an XP disc was aquired obviously a step up...but the pc cannot run it...constantly freezing up etc. She is lookin to buy a new pc..but has yet to make up her mind, even as basically as desktop or laptop..so wants to revert to 98 so at least its usable once again.
If its not too much trouble while i have ths thread...
She also has 2 other pc's (donated..in need of repair but to try and tide her over) that have troubles..
1st one..when the power goes on just beeps..constantly. Hard to describe a beep though.
2nd..(though last night it wouldn't fire the monitor) she told me the night before..it came up with an error message 'ultra 666 bios error'. Now i have looked up the meaning..but nothing really suggested as to what or how to fix it.
Both of theses pc's are actually much better than her troublesome number..if only we knew how to get over said issues.
Though no worries if not.
Lastly..
ps I like the way nigel worthington got Naarwich out of the bottom three !!!!
I think I'm one of the only few who dunt follow footy..sorry pal!
Thanks very much for you inputs so far guys.
As Arnie once said whilst learning to play the piano.. "I'll be Bach". (Sorry..that was bad!!)