hi all bought a old pc off a m8
check this link to the howtogeek forum to read about it if u can reply here to any ideas apart from bin it i would b veRRy greatful its driving me nuts lol

http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/topic/will-not-boot-up-bootmgr-is-missing-eh?replies=1#post-220381

Is it possible for you to start the computer in 'safe mode'?

Boot from disc and select Repair Computer?

Take to it with a hammer

Typical Aussie.

it has a new hard drive no op sytem installed so it wont go to safe mode or read and windows discs ,, it now has a lynux op system on ,, now how can i put xp on

it has a new hard drive so no op sytem on it i wont boot with any windows discs just lynux os http://www.pclinuxos.com/?page_id=180this one

Have you tried different windows disks?
Your disk may be faulty, because the linux disk does.
Or am i reading it wrong?

''Wont boot into any windows disk?

every windows disc xp vist and 7 non work

yea i now

Did your friend have windows on previously?

I think that's what you are looking for

What hes saying is i think that it wont boot from the disk, the linux boots, but the windows, which is the op he is wanting, wont

Go into the BIOS from booting and select your boot setup so it boots of your CD Drive before finding a floppy and a HDD. Then bash out f7 on the boot sector and you can play your disk through that menu.

;lol

hAV EU

lol im not simpls lol. yeh bios is set to boot from cd drive , it has a new hard drive ,, it did have windows xp i think ,,

ok got lynux op system on it ,, erm took the hdrive out to format on this pc but it wont recognize the drive to format it withe the lynux op system on it,, so it back in the troubled pc now i need to install windows xp with lynux on it

but even trying to boot from disc the lynux op system just boots up how can u wipe this crap off...

Try looking here:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/247804

I also hunted around a bit, that seems to be the favoured post ^^^