trouble with xp

[Tuomas]

Yeah, I know...

Anyway, my hellos from space... wait, no, Spain Anyway, Where the hell is the Y in this keyboard layout. Oh, found it /Edited...

Anyway, I got a laptop from my grandma, and then I went and removed windows 98 se from it... just fro the sake of it, yeah, that and because for some reason when I tried to update to xp with my xp CD it said pdate not possible. Ok, so I thought I'd start over, as in C:/formt C: did a fine job. Then I entered the XP disc in, run the install program, and at this one point it starte asking for my key code... thing, you know. I didn't know if I'd need it, but I had it with me anyway. so I entered it,and it told me the key's not valid.

I don't know if it's because I have it already installed on my computer at home or just because it's bitchy. Anyway, I couldn't even restart the computer, so I ended up taking the battery out. No harm done I guess since there were no files to corrupt. Except... I can't install my XP, but apparently everytime I try to startup, it goes straght to finishing installation, and then gets stuck again. You see, I could start it with a floppy, or from cd/ or from hard drive, from which the two latter give me the installation.

Anyway, i was thinking if this could be fixed somehow, or anyone knew what I could do, or what I did wrong, so I can get to installing my wlan card... I'd use a 98' boot floppy, but how the hell am I ever going to find one at Mallorca. Ok, my dad promised to send me one when I got to Ibiza and get a decent address. Meanwhile I've been searching for a Linux CD/DVD that'd work in startup... I wonder why no magayines have them. AND THIS BLOODY TOWN DOESN'T EVEN HAVE A COMPUTERSHOP... Anyway, I'm running out of paid time on this computer, but I'll be back to check out this thread, so thanks for the advice... Laters.