Hey,
Afternoon all, I'm having a little difficulty with a secondhand laptop i aquired recently and I was hoping someone here would be able to help me out.
The laptop is quite an old one (it boasts its 'Y2K compliance' on the back) and used to have Windows 98 on it. Unfortunatly the previous owneres have installed XP which has pretty much killed it. I was hoping to uninstall XP and install 2000 (as I don't have a copy of 98) but i've run into some problems that no amount of googling will fix:
1) Firstly, the laptop doesn't have an floppy drive, only a CD-ROM drive
2) I was hoping (probably naively) to just pop the 2000 disk into the computer and click 'install' but XP won't let me do that as there's a newer OS already there.
I've altered the bios settings so the CD drive is the first thing that boots up. Is it just a case of formatting the C drive and then installing 2000 from the disk? There are no files on the laptop I want to save, but do I need to copy some system files before I format? And if so, which ones?
Any help would be much appreciated, i've installed OS's before but always upgrading and always Windows.
Thanks
Adam.
Afternoon all, I'm having a little difficulty with a secondhand laptop i aquired recently and I was hoping someone here would be able to help me out.
The laptop is quite an old one (it boasts its 'Y2K compliance' on the back) and used to have Windows 98 on it. Unfortunatly the previous owneres have installed XP which has pretty much killed it. I was hoping to uninstall XP and install 2000 (as I don't have a copy of 98) but i've run into some problems that no amount of googling will fix:
1) Firstly, the laptop doesn't have an floppy drive, only a CD-ROM drive
2) I was hoping (probably naively) to just pop the 2000 disk into the computer and click 'install' but XP won't let me do that as there's a newer OS already there.
I've altered the bios settings so the CD drive is the first thing that boots up. Is it just a case of formatting the C drive and then installing 2000 from the disk? There are no files on the laptop I want to save, but do I need to copy some system files before I format? And if so, which ones?
Any help would be much appreciated, i've installed OS's before but always upgrading and always Windows.
Thanks
Adam.
