I am having trouble. I backed up my files then formatted my hard drive. What do I do next? When I boot from floppy, I select the cd-rom assistance, it does a few things, prepares to start my computer, loads diagnostic tools to D: , but that only bring me to an a: When I use the product recovery disk it brings me into the program, asks for licence agreement etc, prepares disk, then gives me a LONG list of invalid drive specifications. HELP ME. I would like to get my other computer working ASAP. But I am a tard with this stuff.

You have to re-format the hard drive with the /s switch IE ( a:\format/s c:\ ) then re-boot to c:\ then install from a:\ the dos cd-rom drivers to c:\ re-boot again your on your way.....

Thanks. I am stuck trying to figure out how to install the cd-rom drivers from a:

When I boot from recovery cd-rom I get an invalid drive specification message. Then it loads PKUNZIP extract utility and gives me a "write protect error writing to drive A" prompt.