Floppy Drive

[shaun]

When i am trying to boot from the floppy,my floppy drive
doesnt detect it,the light keeps glowing but never does
the A:\ show up,my floppy drive is working boz when i get
on to windows and double click on floppy drive it
works.my boot order is set in a right way with the floppy
being first.now i want to format my hard disk and put up
a new windows xp in it but without floppy drive i dont
think i can do????? i tried using Winxp professional CD
to format but it installed another windows in a new drive
instead of formatting it,now i have 2 windows xp in my
system and tell me a way to format my system and with a
single drive, later on i can use partion magic disk to
partition.i need my floppy drive to work too??? i think i
am writing too much.
Thank You

 

[*** Taz Devil ***]

Windows XP installs from the original CD that it comes on.
You will have to go into your bios and have the CD drive
as your first boot drive so that the CD will auto boot.

After it has booted you will be presented with the option
to format your HD, which file system you want to format it
to (FAT32 or NTFS). It will then install windows onto the
drive you selected.

There is no need for a boot disk, this is only required
for win 9x.

 

[Bishoop]

When i am trying to boot from the floppy,my floppy drive
doesnt detect it,the light keeps glowing but never does
the A:\ show up,my floppy drive is working boz when i get
on to windows and double click on floppy drive it
works.my boot order is set in a right way with the floppy
being first.now i want to format my hard disk and put up
a new windows xp in it but without floppy drive i dont
think i can do????? i tried using Winxp professional CD
to format but it installed another windows in a new drive
instead of formatting it,now i have 2 windows xp in my
system and tell me a way to format my system and with a
single drive, later on i can use partion magic disk to
partition.i need my floppy drive to work too??? i think i
am writing too much.
Thank You

Check the following link for a good discussion on clean installing WinXP:

http://tinyurl.com/1771

 

[Alex Nichol]

When i am trying to boot from the floppy,my floppy drive
doesnt detect it,the light keeps glowing but never does
the A:\ show up,my floppy drive is working boz when i get
on to windows and double click on floppy drive it
works.my boot order is set in a right way with the floppy
being first.now i want to format my hard disk and put up
a new windows xp in it but without floppy drive i dont
think i can do????? i tried using Winxp professional CD
to format but it installed another windows in a new drive

Without knowing why the floppy will not boot (presuming that it is a
bootable floppy and not just an empty disk), you do the format and
reinstall by booting the XP CD direct. Enter Setup, and after the
license agreement take New Install. Then when it asks you to confirm
where, do not just accept installation to the present partition, which
will result in the 'doubling up' you suffered, but hit ESC; select and
delete the current partition and make a new RAW one to be formatted at
the next stage