I have a Winxp Home edition.  

Ok help would be very VERY appriciated on this one..
ok i had an error about "NTLDR is missing" press alt del to restart.....  
Then i started messing around with my PhoenixBios setup and utility on boot part because i kept getting this message OPERATING SYSTEM NOT FOUND
So in boot device priority section it had few options..i forgot how it was setup now, well anyway it says to press "SHIFT 1" to enable...
I clicked the one under Hard Drive; ST340810A-(PM) and Bootable Add-in Cards  <-----for me to enable for the WinXp home edition to launch and so it did ..now this is my story sorry for my grammer im not really good at..So i please bare with me thanks. :-/

When i put in the CD window XP home editon and press "Enter" to install the program pressed "F8" to agree,and now it says Winxp Setup could not find a previous version of Windows installed on your computer.. I try many things but it get worse eh?

THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME---its grandly appriciated.. Did you have antivirus protection?

[glb]Flame[/glb]Yes infact i did had AVG then i bought Norton 2005 yesterday but i could'nt install it cause my pc CORRUPTED  Well.... Let me ask... Did you install any new hardware/software RIGHT before you had this problem?

[glb]Flame[/glb]I believe notOh yea by the way i search for few "NTLDR missing" errors on here and it says about 'copy c:\i386\ntldr c:\
But kept giving me Bad command and stuff like that

Also i have a windows 98 floppy disk start up
i cannot figure this out  :-/the same thing happened to me with my new laptop, hes what i did to fix it. I  tried to reformat, it wouldn't let me so this is what came after.
take out ur hard drive--->turn the comp on(with nothing in the other drives--eg cds floppies), wait for it to do what ever it does, then you will get error messages and such. Then shut of the comp. plug your drive back in and then reformat and reinstal windows on a seperate partition. To do that u can find the info on this website.


hope this helpsthanks for advice
I am really not good with computers at all
But one question how do i take my hardware out?  :-/ im really not very good at this

THANKS
open up your case and u will see your hard drive, diconect the power cables. if it is IDE, u will see a thin grey ribion. It GOES to ur hard drive to ur mother board. unplug it from the hard disk side. then go of again and try my remmidy if u wish. Oh ya if there are no grey ribions let me know and ill tell u, if u have a notebook comp. its a bit different, but easy to learn. Thank you for your advice
I will surely do that right now  

O yea by the way whenever i take out the WinXp cd home edition, and turn boot my computer says;

Please select the operating system to start:

Windows (Default)
Windows (Default)


For trouble shooting..... F8

But either way, selecting windows default and or F8 for safe mode all it does is restart... Is your version of windows an UPGRADE or full install? If a full install fdisk and format the harddrive then reinstall windows.Sounds like you have an upgrade version in which case you would not be able to install unless you installed another version of windowsi agree with WRWSS, did my methode ASLO work?could he have windows xp installed twice on the same partition somehow? that could be why hes geting the message??!