Originally Posted by Twopack
Some excellent tips here, thanks to all.
I can now enter the BIOS to change the boot order and thanks to ormus55 - 'ultimate boot disk' and 'clean install' are useful tools.
I now have a formatted hard drive, just need to get a new XP disk now, as mine doesn't seem to want to load!
If you are using a xp restore disk, make sure that you simply put it in the CD drive, then reboot, telling the bios to boot from the CD first. If you allow the computer to start then try to run the xp setup program many times it will not work. It wants to boot then run its series.