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yesidowindows:
ok here goes . i have a pentium 4 ,128 megs of ram a 20 gig hd and a 1.3 gig processor (i think) i let a supposed friend "borrow" my computer and it seems he installed windows xp pro (not a "legal" version) I have the disk for this "version" of xp pro but i cannot download service packs because of the problem with how it was acquired .i don't have a disk to reinstall windows me( which i was not fond of anyway) and my puter is not a commercial brand.I can't format or use f-disk or boot to DOS i want to go linux (mandrake 9.0?) i have tried to download it but this whole ISO thing has me stumped. but i am so familiar with windows i dont know if i can handle it and i am worried that it won't have all the stuff i can get with windows. but first , i want to write zeros to the drive and reformat. but i can't ! I have tried everything and I can't boot to DOS i am stuck!!!?%$^$%&&
he also converted my hd to NTFS so i am bumming and i hate it and i desperately need help!hope y'all are feeling generous especially since i am new. i will be waiting anxiously for some good news if there is any.
  :mad:

Pantso:
What kind of a friend is that? Don't worry though, now is your chance to install and start using Linux. Learning how to use a new OS could be a bit frustrating at first but be persistent and you'll be rewarded. You don't have to dl the ISOs if you don't want to. You can always buy very cheap Linux CDs from the Web!

As for your Windows problem sorry but I can't help you and to be frank I don't think that any of the guys here will be able or want to help you. And last but not least don't use pirated software  

Ice-9:
M$ removed the possibility of rebooting to Dos from ME on, so it's quite "normal" you can't boot to it.
If you have a Win98 bootdisk lying around you can boot from floppy and from there access fdisk quite easily.
Delete all the Dos partitions you see and you can install Mandrake, although I would recommend Redhat 8.0 these days  

If you don't have a bootdisk, you can boot from cd (I suppose Xp handles it the way Win2K does) and format your drive before the actual install (format it in fat32), just stop the install after the formatting and you're good to go.

Hope this helps.

RudeCat7:
Didn't we have a post just like this before? Is it the same so-called "friend"?  :confused:

Zombie9920:
Actually you can use SP1 with pirated copies of XP. You just have to install XP with a product key(Volume License Key/VLK) that isn't blacklisted.

[ October 09, 2002: Message edited by: Zombie9920 ]

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