My ex-wife's boss donated a computer for my daughter... now I'm trying to get it set up... it's an old "corporate" computer with Windows 2000 installed.
He said Windows would need to be re-loaded, he doesn't know the password. It does have some company's inventory tags, etc, so I know it's not stolen.
it's an IBM tower, 350 Mhz, 128MB RAM
I've got a copy of Windows 98SE, and the XP Home that came with my PC (upgraded to Pro)
Do I need to buy Windows? Full version? Upgrade version?
If I can't get any further than the login screen, how would I get new Windows loaded?
My PC doesn't have a floppy, so I can't make a boot disk, I tried to make a system disk from my daughter's Win98 machine, but it doesn't have the format command on it, and when I use it, how to I get to the CD drive to install Windows?
I used to know all this stuff, but I haven't "played" with computers at this level for 6 years or so, seem to have forgotten everything.
Help!
2006-06-24
11:06:19
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