Right now i am using Dell Latitude C400. Then, 1 days my windows crash and i wanted to reinstall winxp back. THE MAIN PROBLEM is, all my floppy and CDRW drive are USB ! My machine DO NOT DETECT when it is in ms-dos mode. So, i just took out the HDD from the notebook and and put it in another laptop and format it using win 98se and make it bootable plus copying all the WinXP files into the HDD. Okay, now i can boot and go inside dos mode. The main problem is, when i type "Setup" to install WinXp in dos mode, is stated "Cannot load this program in MS-DOS Mode". So i cannot run the "WinXP Setup Program". One more problem is all the drive is EXTERNAL - USB (fdd and CDRW). Therefore cannot used it as a Bootable Media. I also tried to copy everything from the old hdd and paste it in the Dell notebook hdd, but yet still when booting time, there is windows error, "blue screen" comes out. So, any ideas ??

at the c prompt type this c:\cd/i386 then it will look like this c:\i386 then type this c:\i386 winnt.exe then hit enter,the installment should start. this is the way you would do it using the cd itself,this may work.

you'll have to install win98 on the dell hdd, then put in the laptop, then upgrade to xp from there. you cannot use dos for any xp functions, there is no dos in xp, and once xp is copied on to the drive in another pc, then in the laptop xp will crash, since it detected diff motherobard drivers/bios. you can thank bill gates for preventing folks from copying the xp and using elsewhere. i did find out that using scsi harddrives in pcs, since they run on their own bios card, they can be moved about from one pc to the othere,

Hmmm.. Don't listen to kkk.. He/she doesn't know anything. zt is right tho.. enter into the i386 dir and type winnt.exe. The "blue screen of death" you got when copying the OS from another drive does indeed have a reason. The partition formats were different. WinNT/XP uses NTFS partitions, whereas Win95/98/ME uses FAT/FAT32. WinXP/NT setups allow you to decide whether to install the OS on a FAT or NTFS partition. The setup will partition NTFS for you if that is what you desire.