''Setup.exe can't be run from DOS'' Sunday, October 7, 2001 at 11:32 am Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by Need Help ASAP (2 messages posted) I upgraded to XP Pro from Win98se and everything wored fine, but then some problems started happening that led me to have to reformat. I loaded on an additional win98se (so i had 2 os's on my machine) to back up my files. Then I formatted my C:. Using a Win98 startup disc, I'm in DOS and now with my XP disc, if i type setup.exe at the cd-rom prompt, it says: "This program cannot be run in DOS mode." Anybody know how to fix it? I read a similiar issue's response that said to go to the I386 directory and run winnt.exe. This sends me to a screen asking where my xp files are...but i dont have any. Another response to that topic said to change my BIOS settings to boot fromma cd-rom, but I don't know how to do this. Thanks for the help. Responses to this message: re: ''Setup.exe can't be run from DOS'' (BlackStar: Sunday, October 7, 2001 at 11:45 am) re: ''Setup.exe can't be run from DOS'' (Blinky: Monday, October 8, 2001 at 1:37 am) re: ''Setup.exe can't be run from DOS'' (Fred99X: Thursday, October 11, 2001 at 3:04 pm) All messages in this thread [show all] ''Setup.exe can't be run from DOS'' (Need Help ASAP: Sun, Oct 7, 2001, 11:32 am) re: ''Setup.exe can't be run from DOS'' (BlackStar: Sun, Oct 7, 2001, 11:45 am) re: ''Setup.exe can't be run from DOS'' (Need Help ASAP: Sun, Oct 7, 2001, 2:20 pm) re: ''Setup.exe can't be run from DOS'' (Zalood: Wed, Oct 10, 2001, 4:08 pm) re: ''Setup.exe can't be run from DOS'' (anonymous: Thu, Oct 11, 2001, 2:58 pm) re: ''Setup.exe can't be run from DOS'' (Blinky: Mon, Oct 8, 2001, 1:37 am) re: ''Setup.exe can't be run from DOS'' (fart breath: Mon, Oct 8, 2001, 9:02 am) re: ''Setup.exe can't be run from DOS'' (Fred99X: Thu, Oct 11, 2001, 3:04 pm) Reply or follow-up to this message Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows XP Discussion Forum