If you boot up a DOS disk, then you are going to install DOS? If not, you just use the XP CD as noted at ...
http://www.blackviper.com/Articles/OS/InstallXPPro/installxppro1.htm
Notice that no DOS disk is used.
Bob
After numerous hardware troubles my new PC lives! Well kind of...I can't figure out how to load the OS. I ran the software for my hard drive. It formatted and partitioned with no problem. It said to load the OS in the CD-ROM drive, set it to boot on the CD-ROM drive, and reboot. However, I got nothing. So I made an MSDOS boot disk on my other XP machine. I got the A: prompt but when I try to use the format command I get a message saying that it cannot be run in DOS mode. Even trying to access the C: drive while running the DOS disk gives me a bad drive message. The drives (hard and CD-ROM) are recognized in BIOS. Even if I get the hard drive to run DOS how do I get the OS loaded from the CD-ROM that DOS fails to recognize also?
Here are system particulars:
P4 2.4 gig CPU
ASUS P4P800 SE mobo
Hitachi CD-ROM drive GD-7500
OS will be XP if I can get it loaded.
Not sure what other info you might need. Thanks for the help. I can't even think straight any more. Sorry for rambling
tim

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