I am trying to clean up my old dell laptop. It is moving real slow and takes forever to boot up. I have tried to reinstall windows and so far it will not allow me. Even when i put the cd in and try to run it that is currently not getting the job done. It has been restored once from a virus from a friend but he is currently a state away and cannot help. any ideas on what i can do. I do have some computer knowledge but can;t figure this out.
2007-04-19 17:33:43 · 3 answers · asked by Michael S 1 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Laptops & Notebooks
it came with windows XP and that is currently what is running on it.
2007-04-19 17:46:14 · update #1
You are probably using a user account w/out admin rights that is why you are not allowed to do the reinstallation. Use the admin account or change the settings of your user account.
Click start, then click on your user icon at top left corner. On the new pop up window, click home. Make the changes there.
I've also tried running Win XP on an old/revived Plll-500 w/ 3x128Mb sdram. After loading the OS, Win XP would boot in 1.5 pass of the blue horizontal scrolling bar (loading indicator). After loading SP2, various drivers, etc. it loads after about 7 passes.
2007-04-19 18:03:38 · answer #1 · answered by Karz 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
put the windows disc into the cd rom and switch it off with the disc in, then stare it and it will say press any key to boot from disc, press any key and it will boot from your disc, make sure you format the partition, it will ask you to press any key again after formatting,dont press anything or you will be back to the begining again, then follow all instructions, you must format the partition to erase the copy of xp that is on it now,format it in ntfs
2007-04-19 18:40:15 · answer #2 · answered by D McC 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If it's really old, it may not support XP. Try installing Windows 2000 on it, you may get better compatibility.
2007-04-19 17:39:58 · answer #3 · answered by .PANiC 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋