Dell Laptop Inspiron 1200-Windows-XP Home Edition

[rtrev64]

Hello all, I am a newbie here. I found this board because I have a problem with my laptop-Dell Inspiron 1200 with Windows XP Home Edition. It is not booting up at all. Let me explain further the details and how it got to this point. I wanted to sell the laptop and decided that I wanted to remove the information I had there and decided to wipe the entire drive, well that is where the problem begins.

This laptop had a pre-installed XP Home Edition so therefore no CD bootable disk. I had this laptop for a few years. It belonged to my son and I bought it from him because he could not afford the payments, so I took over.

Here is where I am at with the laptop, I hope I did not mess it up further, desperate measures call for desperate times, I used my desktop emachines cd recovery cd on the laptop.. I know, stupid move but like I said before.

Now I get the options of safe mode etc but none of them work, it returns me to the battery recalibration screen which I have already recalibrated 2 times.

aint getting nowhere.. please help..I decresed the value 2 times because of this move.

[rtrev64]

I guess it must be the dumbest question ever asked on this board or no one really know what is up with my problematic laptop or no one understood my question or all the above..