XP is designed to boot from the CD, not DOS. Have you tried that?
I just downloaded a copy of the WIN95 bootdisk, and COMPLETELY deleted my computer's partition and all its data. Now, I have a copy of XP,(Not the upgrade, the ACTUAL thing) and I wanna install it. But, whenever I go to load the setup.exe, it tells me that I can't do it in DOS. So, I go to the \i386\WINNT.EXE and it tells me that I can't do it because it didn't have a space to put a swap file or something like that.
SO, now that I know my XP disk doesn't work, I went to get my WIN98 setup CD, but I think my brother, (Who lives about 6 states away,) has my disk. IS there any way to get my XP disk to work? If I even had 95 on my computer, I can get it to work. So, is there a place where I can download 95 or 98 to a bunch of floppies?? Thanks for any and all help I get.

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