UPDATE - I thought that I would rebuild the machine as I didn't want to lose any bits while it sat around my house and thought that I would try the installation one more time. It successfully formatted the disc and I am currently on 39% of the installation of the recovery disc for XP. Don't ask me how, but fingers crossed! !!!
Last edited by AutoFreak on Wed Nov 04, 2015 3:48 pm, edited 1 time in total.
I got to disc 2, and then got a write error so am trying again now.
Its juat the standard HDD (non SATA) and installing Windows XP as I asssume its what is on the system recovery discs ?
I was writing the last few posts on my phone lol but am now on the big boys computer now
I just checked and yes it appears as ACTIVE in bios. If I search UTIL in C: it shows a Utility Manager and a UTIL file ? I will post a picture now but I am having problems uploading them and it will appear MASSIVE so you might have to click on the "show image" to view it correctly