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re: Question about 'How do I boot into Windows XP or Windows 2000 with a floppy?'
Wednesday, February 13, 2002 at 2:00 am
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Jude
(3 messages posted)
On Tuesday, February 12, 2002 at 8:25 pm, jon wrote:
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>On Tuesday, February 12, 2002 at 4:33 pm, Jude wrote:
>I got round it by using a windows98 boot disk, which got me to dos with cd-rom support.
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>I then navigated my way onto the WinXP cd, found Winnt file (i think) in the i386
>folder... which launched the setup...
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>oh yea,,,when i tried the setup file,,,using a 98 startup disk,,it told me it could
>not do it in a dos environment. I wonder if i copied the startup disk to c/ after
>i formated,,would it see that as win98 and install over it?
the setup file in the root of the CD gives that messase yes, if you move to the "i386"
folder, and do a search for .exe's there are two obvious ones (winnt and winnt32
from memory), one of those will run from DOS...
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