Hi,

Well i've had another look round the net searching using your error message and i keep coming back to the two suggestions i gave eariler.

The first and easiest is just to download the 98 boot disk and load the setup from the cd that way. That you can probably try regardless of anything because it should take you no more than 10 min to do and you'll know immedeately if it works.

Secondly like Und3ertak3r the other suggestion i keep coming back to is bad RAM. Thats harder to check out and fix, but it just keeps coming back in the searches.

As for loading XP on, again Und3ertak3r is right, you had better have more than 128MB! It'll still run, but like a snail. What's the processor speed? On my older 900MHz machine it had 256MB of RAM and ran a bit slow, bumped upto 512MB and it runs lovely now, quite quick to load etc. If yours is a better processor then you could probably get away with 256MB