new install on old computer

Make sure the BIOS support the hardware upgrades suchas large hard drive

Make sure you have the hardware drivers to install

What operating system do you plan to upgrade?
Windows 98

Insert a startup disk in the floppy drive with cd-rom inthe cd drive

Boot computer and at the command prompt use fdisk to partition the drive
reboot

Now format the drive and proceed to install the operating system

1. Have bootable diskette of the operating system you intend to install, www.bootdisk.com, make sure you download the one for bootable disk with cdrom drivers.
2. Do an fdisk and delete and then recreate a primary partition.
3. format the drive. format c: /u /s
4. Md on the c: drive call win98 or win95 of what Os you are using.
6. xcopy all the files from the cdrom example : d:\win98>xcopy32 *.* /e c:\win98\*.*
or if you just want the cabs xcopy *.ca*
7. Go to the c drive of the folderyou created. Win95 or win98 and run setup from there, this will eliminate the windows asking for your windows cd after installation. sometimes windows does not reconize the cdrom and you need the cab files.
8. download and install your device drivers.

ATTN this is for a hdd that does not need to have any software or documents saved, make sure you back up if needed.

Hope this helps?