I need help, I try to do a complete system restore by inserting the system restore cd when I first boot. It loads up a restore menu, but then says that windows xp needs at least 330mega bytes free for installation. No problem I'd of thought - at least 40 gig left on harddrive. It says no room for installation, please press enter to continue and it takes me to dos. I switch to C: drive to check size and it reports it at only around 10 megabytes in total space available. A list of files / DIR just returnes the basic DOS commands etc..and no mention of any other files I have on there. Why will it not pickup the correct size of the disk so I can restore Windows? All I want to do is restore it to the day I first bought it. I have done it before on previous systems. Any Ideas?

Is the drive formatted as Ntfs? If so that could cause this. You'll need to use a Win9x bootdisk with fdisk on it to delete the partition first. Sandman

my notbook with windows xp have a problem when i was start it up their message says their is no operating system when i put the recovery cd it doesnot work and i donot know what i do plz help

monamohamed You are going to shoot yourself in the foot by posting the same question everytwhere, as answers will come also from everywhere, you are going to get a bit of answers here, a bit there, and before you know it, the helpers will lose interest in posting as they no longer sure who is reading which thread.