hi hopefully u can help me, iv got a pentuim 3 pc with 512 memory etc

now i originaly was running win 98 se when because of spyware etc, and going slowly i decided i wanted a bigger hard drive - originaly 6.8mb, so i got a 160 mb hard drive and decided to upgrade to win xp

i got a copy of win xp from a friend but the key didnt work so i just decided to get a copy from pc world

i got that today and decided that i would start from scrach when installig win xp

now after it copies the files it restarts but doesnt move from the screen that says press any key to boot from cd

iv tried formating it and running it again buy nothing changies

any ideas ?

Welcome to D-A-L!

What version of XP do you have? Home or Pro? SP1a or SP2?

The reason for the question is that SP2 can handle larger drives, SP1a has some problems.

Also, just a note, we do not support pirated software. It was good of you to buy the copy from PC world since MS will soon shut off all updates to none properly validate WIndows setups.

its service pack 2

and its windows xp home


a friend of mine had the same prob a few months, he had to take it to a repair shop,

after i format the hard drive, it then copys the files, but after thet it restarts the pc and now it says and error msg

it says : ntldr not found...

any ideas or do i have to take it to the pc shop?

have you fully formatted the hard drive with XP not just a quick format?

ntldr problems

This is a good general guide to installing XP:

http://michaelstevenstech.com/index.html

Check out Clean Install.