Loading XP

What I meant install from scratch is.. install on a clean hard drive with no OS present.

what i would do in a situation like this is not that complicated.i would find a bootable windows 98 disk and use that to boot into the system. from there chose support with cd rom with in turn shall give our cd rom drivers to load in dos. once you have access to the cd rom load the exe. from the cd and presto! you should now have the ablility to load xp. if this dont work let me know, i have a couple other work arounds.

Another way you can do it is to copy the entire i386 directory (it's about 5000 files altogether) onto the drive it's going to be installed on. You won't need the CD around then after the install. Winnt.exe is the name of the file that starts the setup if I remember correct. Do this on another pc still running windows. This isn't the best way, however, unless you can partition the drive the way you want using the file system you want (i.e. NTFS). You could always convert the volume to NTFSlater if your other machines are only Win95/98/Me, etc...

Good luck,

You can download a file from Microsoft to create a 6-8 floppy disk set to use to boot up from a floppy drive.
This set of disks installes all the files that are normally installed when you boot from the CD.

Chas

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