Dear all: Many thanks for answering my queries - I was totally unaware this forum existed until a friend pointed me in its direction. The machine is now working and is ready to be collected by the customer tomorrow. I think that special thanks are needed because unlike on several Facebook enthusiast …

Hi derSammler: Just re-read your post regarding fdisk, is there a format command in fdisk? Thanks Graham

Hi everyone: I did the FDISK and that has moved the situation on a bit, thank you. I used this to partition the drive, deleting the presumably XP partition and putting on a DOS partition. The machine said reboot and then format. Herein lies the problem, the boot cd doesn't seem to have the format …

Hi all: No one is smaller and one is the same size - 60gb and 40gb. I don't have any floppies, would Hirens work? Thanks Graham

Hello everyone: First post here, looks like a brilliant forum. Okay, I have been building PCs since I was 15, about 20 years ago, this was back in the Socket 7, IDE days. After this time I have been building/sourcing/repairing machines as a side gig. As part of the aforementioned side gig, someone …