hello. I am trying to reinstall XP on a PC. unfortunately the reinstall CD has been lost, and all I can find to replace it is an XP OEM CD. (seems like MS had all copies of XP returned when shipping Vista - which I can't use as the PC is used by an accountant and Vista & Sage are not yet working in harmony - as I couldn't find one anywhere on Tottenham Ct Rd today.) anyway, when I boot up from the CD I am not given the option of formatting the HD beforehand - it automatically begins downloading files and that hasn't worked out at all. lots of dll's missing, apparently. I reckon I'd be okay if I could figure out a way to format first and then boot up from the CD, but have had no luck trying this via the dos prompt (accessed via start/run/c:\dos) I keep getting the message that I have to unmount the disk first, but don't know what this means. my efforts thus far have made what was a bad situation even worse, so any advice will be v gratefully received. how do I format my c: drive - and if I do, will the OEM disk do the trick? thanks.
bob.
bob.