Need help installing OS

Bought an asus notebook with free dos, means no operating system.

however after much effort, still cant install xp in, or any other operating systems.

can help? =)

 

Have you got a proper full XP install disc. If you have, and it isn't working, it might be because the disc isn't being read at start up. You have to change the boot priority in BIOS. After doing that, you should be able to go into the Windows Xp setup, and format the hard disk. From there on it should be pretty easy.

If I haved assume your problem inccorectly, post back and please explain what your stuck with.

 

You need a windows xp disk with sp2 on it. if you are experiencing a blue screen during installation at about 34 min then you need sp2 slipstreamed on the disk. if you want detailed help please elaborate on your problem model specs and where purchased,.

 

Eddie's right. With a lot of the newer notebooks, you'll need SP2 slipstreamed onto the XP CD to recognize the hardware. It'd help us if you told us which Asus model you have.

However, I'd consider Zero's suggestion before you do anything else. With most Asus laptops, pressing F2 at the BIOS boot screen should get you into the BIOS...

 

And make sure the XP disc your using is a bootable version. I use a XP Pro SP1 disc and it installs fine. Added SP2 later of course

 

It's hard to say what the problem is without more detail. Have you tried the live Linux distributions?

~ Brett