There are certain area's in your post that I am unclear about, so forgive me from starting from the begining.
1. Use a boot disk to get to an A: prompt and then type Fdisk (Enter). Fdisk the drive and when it is complete, don't forget to make the partition active. Without this crucial step, you won't achive anything.
2. Format C: (Enter) is the next command and this will format your drive and make it usable. If you wish, you can use the command Format C: /s/u This will unconditionally format the drive (in other words, get rid of everything) and load the system files on the drive, making C: bootable. (Note the space between the C: and the /)
3. Re-boot computer with a Windows recovery (boot) disk and when you get to the A: prompt type Setup (Enter)
4. Allow the setup process to start and when you get back to the A: prompt type E: (Enter) This is because, the setup floppy will have created a virtual drive and named it D:, so wherever your NORMAL CD Rom drive would be, it has moved along one letter. (If it were normally E, it becomes F and so on).
5. With the CD in place, now type Setup (Enter), and hopefully all should be well! If your not 100% sure of what your doing, use one of the default options. Once the system is installed, it can always be modified to taste later.
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[ 24 January 2002: Message edited by: WhiteSail ]</p>