I have a dell 400 meg laptop I have a boot disk for it but i want to load windows xp full version in to it. I really need some one to help me set this thing up. Is there a way to completly clean the hard drive then install windows as if this it was new computer? Thanks for any help . :

assuming you have a full version cd here is a pretty good guide to setting it up:

http://michaelstevenstech.com/cleanxpinstall.html

windows xp should ask you if you what to do it when you boot off the xp disk. good luck.

How much memory do you have on it?

jim biehl
cricket@rapidcable.com