We frequently find problems with older computers which have failed DVD/CD drives.. Replacement of such is required so they can boot from that drive. Once that's done, you should be able to burn the Dban image to the disc (hopefully, you know how to burn an "image" to the disc and not just burn the actual .iso file to the disc) and you should be able to
As far as installing the operating system, it looks like BOTH of your OS discs may be bound to fail. Unless the OEM disc has never been used and isn't designed for a specific computer model, the OEM disc will generally only install and function on the computer make and model it came with.. If it's preset for a specific computer, it won't recognize the hardware on a different computer and it's always going to have issues, even if you can get it to install. On the other the other hand, if it's a new OEM disc that's never been used, then you might get it to work with a functioning drive. Afterward, you would need to find and install all the correct drivers.
As far as the use of anything other than a fully legal version of XP (the disc with the anti-activation patch is NOT within Microsoft's EULA), we won't be discussing such on these forums.. It's against forum policies and such discussions are removed.
Hope this helps.
Grif
ok i got a old amd 850 mhz pc. setting it up for a freind who cant afford one. he only is gonna use it for craigslist nd basic emails so im sure itll be plenty. the problem is it is full of adware viruses and other things and i cant seem to get it to format. i changed the options in advance bios for the cd rom to be the first boot option. whenever i select to boot from disc its the second choice and the keyboard stops working making the highlighted choice of boot from harddrive run. also i have 2 windows xp discs ones a oem from miscrosoft bought in a box from best buy when it was new, have a second burned copy with a patch to deactivate the activation prompt but neither one will auto run or can be found in my disc drives. if i pop win98se in it auto runs but wont let me open anything on the disc. ive also tried buring a iso image of dban nuke but that didnt work either. id really like to format this drive instead of buying a new harddrive any help is appricated. thnx

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