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More info?)
In article <45ac3713.0406011800.27f5fe02@posting.google.com>,
jbrandonbb@hotmail.com says...
> Is there a way to install Win XP on a blank hard disk if your system
> won't boot from CD?
>
Boot with any bootable floppy that has CDROM support. www.bootdisk.com
has a good collection. A Win98 startup disk will do.
Also some computers will boot from CDROM butonly when the BIOS setting
for the IDE channel it is on set to auto.
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Conor
I started with nothing and I still have most of it left.