I just bought a new Western Digital 40G HD to replace my old one. WHen I put the XP cd that I had for my old one in it will not read it automatically to install XP. I got a 98 boot disk and installed it. Now when I am in dos and type in D: (my CD ROM) and type in setup.exe or just setup, it says "THIS PROGRAM CAN NOT BE RAN FROM DOS MODE". What am I doing wrong? Simply put...I am trying to install XO PRO on a brand new hard drive! HOW?????

A nice feature of the windows xp cd is that you can boot from it, and hence install it like that. To do this go to your BIOS (usually by pressing delete during the first booting screen). Once in your bios look for boot order or boot devices or some-such. (this varies a lot on what BIOS your using) Once you've found it set it to boot first from cd-rom, or only from cd-rom (if you have more than one cd-rom drive be sure that you set it to boot from the right one.) Now save the changes, and if your cd is in the drive it should boot off of that and the installation procedure has begun.

Sounds like you're trying to shut down to dos and run setup. Doesn't work that way. Follow the advice from Someone and all will be well. If you have any files, pics or music on it now, save it to a cd if you have a cd writer before installing XP and then do a clean install. That is if it's a full version of XP, not an upgrade cd.

I bought a new hard disc and i've prroblem to set up the WinXP.When is going to reboot these messages are appeared:MISSING OPERATING SYSTEM and ERROR LOADING OPERATING SYSTEM........ PLEASE HELP ME ............

There was a way to invoke the Win2K setup loader from dos...i think its the same for XP too... Boot into DOS with the Win98 boot, then go to the CDROM drive that has XP inserted...then type cd\I386 and hit enter... Then type WINNT and hit enter. This should start the installation. It did it with Win2K so it may work with XP.

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just boot from the cd... saves you the trouble and effort of copying all those files without any memory management from DOS. You were being told the drive wasn't there originally because you hadn't partitioned it..