but my computer was completely messed up
so i got a copy of windows from my friend and installed it
but when it asked me to install it
i put it on my largest partition
thinking it would just overwrite my non working windows
but instead i think it just installed it side by side
because when i start up windows
it gives me 2 choices of Windows XP
one being the new working windows (with out any drivers though)
and the other being the old non working windows
i need to get the new windows I installed off of my computer
so i just have the non working windows
so when Dell sends me the discs I can just fix it their way
what id like to have happen is
to get rid of the new windows i just installed
fix the old one that was infected by a virus
partition my harddrive so I can install a gaming version of XP on my computer as well as the fixed version
so i can boot up in one or the other
get partition magic and format just the partition the new windows you installed is on.
PS, what are you talking about a "gaming" version of Windows? Really what your doing is a waste of time and hard drive space. Windows XP will play any game that is not Vista only, which is rare right now.
You should be more worried about your RAM, processor, and graphics card and whether it can handle the game then what OS your running.
Persoanally if i were you i would get a nice External drive, back up all your critial files and programs, wipe the internal drive clean and install a fresh copy of Windows and start from scratch. It takes longer but your PC will run better. Dell systems are not really know for being that great to start with and when they have problems they tend to be hard to fix. I had one myself and finally got tired of formating it about once a year and built a gaming machine.
Originally posted by steimy: get partition magic and format just the partition the new windows you installed is on.
PS, what are you talking about a "gaming" version of Windows? Really what your doing is a waste of time and hard drive space. Windows XP will play any game that is not Vista only, which is rare right now.
You should be more worried about your RAM, processor, and graphics card and whether it can handle the game then what OS your running.
Persoanally if i were you i would get a nice External drive, back up all your critial files and programs, wipe the internal drive clean and install a fresh copy of Windows and start from scratch. It takes longer but your PC will run better. Dell systems are not really know for being that great to start with and when they have problems they tend to be hard to fix. I had one myself and finally got tired of formating it about once a year and built a gaming machine.
yeah my dell has had several problems
the "gaming" version of XP is just a stripped down version of XP
that uses less RAM and cuts back on a lot of unnecessary things
so it runs alot faster
so thats why i wanted to get it going too
but i got the discs from dell and the guy is going to call me tonight and ill just wipe everything and start clean
after that ill look into getting the Other XP OS going
