unable to boot from XP CD to reinstall

[Fred]

Hello group and thanks for all that reply.

I have a no name brand pc that I purchased with Windows 2000 and upgraded
the operatiing system XP pro. Now I want to do a totally new install of XP.
My problem is that I can't get the machine to boot off the XP Pro CD to do
the install ( I have the boot device set to the CD-ROM).

Is there a way to create a boot floppy form the XP Pro CD? I have tried to
use other boot floppies but when I run the setup program on the XP Pro CD I
get an error that it cant run in DOS mode.

Can any one come up with a work around or suggestion?

Thanks

Fred

 

[Will Denny]

Hi

The following link will show you how to boot your PC with a set of 6
floppies when you can't boot from an XP CD:

"Windows XP Professional Utility: Setup Disks for Floppy Boot Install
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...FamilyID=55820EDB-5039-4955-BCB7-4FED408EA73F

 

[Fred]

Will,

Thanks for your help. I'll try your suggestion tonight.

Fred

 

[Will Denny]

Hope all goes well, Fred.

 

[Fred]

Will,

Worked like a charm. Thanks again.

Fred

Hope all goes well, Fred.

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Will Denny
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[Guest]

i tried that, and it acts like the cd-rom isn't detected. it shows as
installed iin bios, yet nothing...the old pc i got used to have linux on it,
and so far ive used the win98 bootdisk to reformat the hdd, and i have bios
set to boot from cd-rom, then floppy, then hdd. it never tries the cd-rom,
and if there's no floppy in, it goes to a blank screen w/ just a flashing
cursor in the uppermost left corner. it used to do this grub prompt before
then i did fixmbr from the recovery console part in the 6 floppy boot
method... ive reset cmos, and still the cdrom shows installed and enabled yet
it doesnt do anything but read the disk when its inserted.

 

[Geoffw]

fixmbr
fixboot

to get rid of grub


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