You need to go into your BIOS during POST (F1 on my Thinkpad) and change the boot order to CD first. Move CD up the list to first in the order following the instructions on the page. When it boots to the CD you can do a clean reinstall.






Michael Thake <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

>I have an IBM Thinkpad which had a virus.  I have Windows 2000 NT installed.  I formatted the hard drive, then partitioned it and then reformatted it again, but I still get a Windows 2000 NT startup screen and blue screen crash which says I have a Kernel Exception?!?!?
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>I want to install a clean version of Windows XP, but the system will not let me get past the startup, even going through Safemode or any other startup mode, including starting up with the Windows XP Disk in the CD Rom drive...still starts up in Windows2000...any ideas on how to correct this and start with a FRESH version of Windows on this hard drive??
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