[RoSs_bg2_rox]

Ok so I installed windows and as some of you probably know I probably had a corrupt instillation so I was advised to start from scratch. so anyway, I fired up Partition Magic 8.0 and formatted all partitions and also changed them all to NFTS, PM runs before startup, so after doing that I just restarted my computer and everything was formatted no problems, I then stuck my Win XP Dell disk image (Ok so it was from another computer but I cant justify a new copy of XP just for one install) major problem! It says invalid system disk, please instert disk and press any key, I tried pressing anykey (the disk was already in) but nothing happened! I tried restarting and the same thing happened, I then tried inserting my win 98 disk in and the same thing happened! So what the hell am I supposed to do? Is there a simple fix?Changing something in BIOS or something?

If not I have some more information. I have some win98 boot disks, so I stuck one of them in, that seemed to work and it asked me if I wanted cd rom support or no cd rom support, I have tried both. It tells you all this stuff about your computer and goes through this approx. 2minute process saying please wait while ..... Then you get to this screen where it just says A:\> Now I thought this would be my chance and so stuck my winxp disk in and typed F:\boot, that didnt work so I tried F:\Setup, F:\Run and a few other things that sprung to mind, none of them worked. So what do I do?

Thanks for any help

Ross