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by altheamartin

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and press any key after format disk on windows 98 machine. attempting to do a clean install of winXP. system is trying to boot from floppy? unable to get pass A:. How do I change the BIOS to boot to the CD-Rom? or what would be the best solution?

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by cg it

take the floppy out of drive A have the Windows 98 CD in the CD during bootup watch the screen. There will be a message in the lower left corner "boot CD press any key" then press a key. This will boot from the Windows 98 install CD.

by thechas

It depends as to whether or not your system supports booting from the CD.

First, enter BIOS setup (while the RAM is testing during POST).

Find the boot sequence section.

Make the CD-ROM the first boot device.

Save settings and exit.

Place the XP CD in the CD drive.

You should be good to go from there.

If you cannot boot from the CD, there are 2 ways to get around the problem.

Boot from your W98 startup floppy.
Answer yes to CD-ROM support.
Browse to your CD drive and run setup.

Or, download the correct boot floppy creation utility for your version of XP from Microsoft and create the 6 disk boot set.

Chas

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