well, if let say that the current drive which is included the system files (windows XP), once if the windows XP have any problem, or maybe there would be alot of junk files inside of the current drive. so what should i do? i just only have the windows 98 startup disk. i didn't have any xp startup disk. how should i go thru to the dos prompt to format again the current drive and reinstall back again the windows xp. any comment ?