BackdoorJesus

OK you booted from the XP CD right?

If not you need to do that (it is in your bios startup settings-choose CD as your first boot source & then restart the machine with the XP CD in the drive).

Then follow yellowfish's instructions in post #6 about deleting all partitions and then once you have only unpartitioned space, you make a new partition which will by default be given the letter C.

If it doesn't default to letter C, you still have old partitions on there; lather rinse repeat.

Once you only have one partition, C, install XP to that partition.

Bear in mind this is all done from the XP boot from the CD - if you are doing anything at this point from within the windows GUI, you're doing it wrong.

Have your company network settings & your PC network settings written down and handy because during the setup process you will be prompted to either let windows automatically set up your network or you choose to set it up - you will not let it do it automatically, you will use the settings you have written down i.e. gateway address, IP address (or DHCP), DNS server etc.

Eventually your XP installation will boot up & you can start fine tuning your settings.

If you got that driver disk from the Sony website you should be able to use it whenever you are prompted for device drivers as they are discovered during final setup/first windows boot. In fact have it at the ready because you may well be prompted to use it during any of the above steps.

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