any help would be fantastic,

i have a m8 that has a laptop with problems. its a dell inspiron 1720. his broardband provider said he had a 'botnet' on his system and shut down his broardband provider. his son has formatted it with a win98 disc (fuck knows why) and now it says it has not enough memory to run any set up discs.

im guessing that it is a partisioned disc and the win98 cd has formatted the smaller section and the memory is assigned to the bigger section.

i can speak 'tecky' and use laptops reinstall windows n stuff so dont think you will have to hold my hand through anything, just some good quality advice is required as i haven't used or fixed a dell before.

Thanks.

Rich.