Thanks so much that worked but now I have a new problem.

Edit: I dont have the money to buy a CD, as I don't have a job and I am not in school.

I creadted a new boot disk for the install, so once I get to the point where they ask me where my iso images are located they give me a list of partitions to choose from. The problem is my first hard drive hda1 is not listed in the list they provide. It only lists the second hard drive but the stuff is on the first hard drive.

They say iuf your hard drive is not listed press F2, so I did and the manufacture of my hard drive was not listed so I could not configure it.

I have an idea why it might not be finding my first hard drive. One time I had partiton problems and ended up deleting all the partitions, somehow after creating one big primary paritition and formating it i was able to install windows.

Today I ran Norton disk doctor and it told me a extended DOS partition was invalid or something, and a boot record was corupted.

I tryed repairing it with Norton but it couldent fix it. So I rebooted and did a

fdisk /mbr

but my boot record and the extended dos partition is still corupted acording to Norton.

Does this mean I have to delete all the partitions, make one big primary partition and formate and install windows or is there a easyer fix?