Well just went thru hell trying to fix my comp, got it up and running, now to reformat...I made a windows 98 SE bootdisk from www.bootdisk.com, put it in and restarted, got into A:/ and typed fdisk, deleted partition, made a new one, made maximum size, then restart again, went back to A:/....................ok now how do I install a new OS? I put in my windows XP Pro CD, typed E:, then setup, it says ''CDR101: Not ready reading drive E''....so went into BIOS, changed boot order to boot from CD first, now it says ''No Operating System'' or ''This cannot be run in dos''........help? 
Edit: I just went into Set Active Parition
Current fixed disk drive: 1
Parition
C:1
Status: A
Type: Pri DOS
Volume label:
Mbytes: 57239
System: Unknown
Usage: 100%
...............shudnt it say NTFS for system? or fat32? how do i change this?
Edit: I just went into Set Active Parition
Current fixed disk drive: 1
Parition
C:1
Status: A
Type: Pri DOS
Volume label:
Mbytes: 57239
System: Unknown
Usage: 100%
...............shudnt it say NTFS for system? or fat32? how do i change this?