The drive was wiped and the CD is maker supplied (fujitsu siemens) kept in folder since new and used to format drive and reinstall before after problems with a virus. It worked with no problems that time. Now while it is loading XP it is coming up with not being able to load the different .dll files i86 can't be opened or found I can't remember which.
I am going to try it again today but I ended up getting it load in some sort of form, probably without the dll files so if I can get onto the net I will try and get the Microsoft fixit thing to check it out and see what it comes up with, it's never been much use in the past except for taking up space with all it's downloads. Cheers