Hi Gewg,
The CMOS battery is fairly new otherwise I'd get all sorts of beeps and error messages.
I do have a floppy drive and that's what I used for kill disk, fdisk and format.
The only error message I get is after A:\ D:\SETUP. It says bad command or file name.
I don't have a knoppix disk and certainly don't want to risk either of my XP systems
trying to boot with the CD.
Thanks for the input.