Thank You.

[Lissy22]

To AC and Chris I appreciate your help. However no luck. I went into BIOS to reset the last page, and can't get the cursor down to the menu! Also when I try to open any program error msg. is "win32 is not a valid application." I don't know what to do next, but there has got to be a formatting answer for a determined nerd. I first tried all the rest of the options.
Thanks,
Lissy22

[ACtheTROLL]

are you using a USB keyboard\mouse?

the bios generally isn't "mouseable"
but on some older versions it can't see a usb device either
(sort of a bad joke the pc mfrs played!)

have you tried your "space invader keys" (up/down/l/r)

the win32 message sounds like possibly the prog is corrupt - or the cd scratched?

[Buenchico]

If you've got a USB keyboard, I suspect that AC may well have identified the problem. (You can buy a PS/2 keyboard for about a fiver from Tesco, or simply borrow one from a friend).

If that doesn't work, try booting from a boot-up floppy instead of your Windows disk.

(Incidentally, if you can eventually boot properly into the screen which allows you to reformat your hard drive, it's worth trying to install Windows on top of itself before actually formatting the drive. I've solved loads of problems with 'on top' installations of Windows, which preserve all software and data, without the need to format the drive first).

Chris