Jo:
You should seriously consider the "one disk"
preparation for installing WinXP from the CD Rom
drive as suggested by Ben Moore.
I believe that you came up through the DOS ranks
so you should be able to do the following.
I have a startup disk from Win 98 that I use regularly
to boot to a dos prompt when I do not ( or cannot)
boot from the hard drive.
You can add fdisk to the floppy if you want to
format the C: drive at this time.
Make sure the autoexec.bat and
config.sys files contain the correct drivers for your
CDRom so it is recognized from the Dos prompt.
The drivers will also have to be on the floopy.
Then switch to the CDRom drive and select and
run the exe. file that will start the installation.
Wally
On Mon, 3 Jan 2005 21:43:37 -0500 "Ben Moore" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
writes:
You can run the WinXP install from floppies if you just want to go
> ahead and
> get it over with. I've copied some info below. The one floppy
> option
> sounds pretty intriguing but I haven't tried it.
>
> Ben Moore
>
> "To Install using the Setup startup disks.
>
> If your computer can not boot from a CD-Rom drive then you will need
> to use
> a Setup disk set to start the computer with. You can obtain a
> download which
> will create a 6 floppy Setup disk set that corresponds to your
> version of
> Windows XP from here:
> http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/release.asp?releaseid=33290
> Home
> Edition
> http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/release.asp?releaseid=33291
> Pro
> Edition
> Once the Startup process is finished you can point to the location
> of your
> Windows XP CD or files to begin the install.
> An alternative to the 6 floppy Setup disk set is to use the 1 floppy
> XP
> Install Disk from here www.bootdisk.com . Boot with it and then run
> WINNT.EXE from the \i386 directory of your XP CD or your setup
> files
> location."
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