My girlfriend has an OLD Inspiron 7000 that was given to her by a friend who upgraded to a new Dell laptop.  The OS was upgraded to XP and it ran as far as I can tell on a fat32 file system which is what I saw whenever I ran a chkdsk on it, (it was soooo slow I was always running that utility). The hard disk was around 7GB if I remember correctly. She deleted practically everything on it so it might run a little faster but there were a zillion files that we couldn't account for (her friend played alot of games and surfed the internet) and  that cluttered the disk. Since I am NO expert regarding computers she gave it to a more computer literate friend to format the disk and reinstall the XP OS.  The problem is that the reinstallation cuts out at 35% at each attempt?  It is always 35%.  The fan works and the friend is at a loss of what to do. Because I have gotten good advice on the forums regarding my Dell Dimension I thought if there was someone who had a suggestion it would be sincerely appreciated.  Thanks.