Well, I feel stupid but I lost my system disk (ie bootable floppy) and the hard disk crashed. I have all of my other disk (XP, motherboard, vidio, audio,printer ect . . .) and my hard drive is supposivly backed up on my portable hard drive (in compressed format, unbootable).
So, can I just reformat my hard drive and start over? Do I need to hook my hard drive up to another computer to reformat it? Could I just buy a newer/bigger hard drive and upgrade at the same time? If I buy a new hard drive what should I watch out for in terms of compatability (I have an IDE drve I think).
Thanks in Advance.