You have a common dual boot problem, usually they have a timer to let you choose which one you want to use. You can either configure a setting in the boot.ini file, or
repair on your WIN2K.

Try booting to the XP CD and when you get to the SECOND DOS prompt type this command. CHKDSK /R I hope this helps you.

Is your mouse a USB mouse ? If it is then it's not supported in Safe-Mode

You can either use the XP CD to format the drive or use a WIN98 boot disk

you can actually download MSCONFIG. just type it in a browser and you can find it there

Just boot to the XP cd and select "Delete Partition" and the reforamt as you normally would. Just make sure that in BIOS the CD is set as the 1st boot device.

you might not find it. it's a hidden partition. Dell uses them all the time.
you best bet is to run a debug script on the Hard Drive. That will wipe out
everything, including hidden partitions

try booting to the XP CD and in the SECOND DOS promt screen try this command
"CHKDSK /R" that an emergency recovery command. IF you HDD is not seen then you have to go into BIOS and make sure that...

low resources the best way is to disable som of your start-up items usind MSCONFIG. and if that does'nt work buy more RAM.

if you used the wrong serial number it might because you used the wrong number. Your best bet is to reformat and start clean.

XP does'nt see FAT 16 it can only go with either Fat 32 or NTFS.
And the software you might be thinking of "Partition Magic"

Check you processor fan and the power supply. Your Hard Drive might be taking a dive on you.

Check the jumpers on all Hard Drives they should either be in Master/Slave mode or cable select. Check with the HDD manufacturer for the jumper settings.

Check the IDE cable from the DVD to the Motherboard it might be bad so replace it.

That's a memory dump command. I would'nt advise messing with that if I were you.

Try using MaxBlast you can download it from the Maxtor website and it takes about 30 seconds to partition and format the HDD

Try running MSCONFIG if you running XP. Clear your temp files and clear you MVRAM. You also might have som spyware running around in there. any physical issues might be that your processor fan might...

Tyr this...
Insert the Windows XP CD into the CD drive.

Click the Start button and then click Run.
The Run window appears.

In the Open: field, type the following line
X:\i386\winnt32.exe...

What kind of formatting did you use ? The WIN98 boot disk or DrDos ? Try going to Maxtor website and download MAXBLAST. That's after you reset the boot sequence showing the CD-ROM as the first boot...

Go to the Nvidia website and download the "Detonator" video driver

You got the blaster virus or one of the variants. The only wasy really to get rid of it is back up what you need to keep and run a debug script on the HDD. The Blaster worm is memory-resident and it...

reinstall

Try disabling some stat-up programs

Try a dirty reinstall of Win2k. it worked for me