There is no win xp startup disk. If for some reasons, your motherboard cannot boot from the cd rom drive, then you have to make 6 boot disks at the Microsoft web site or at any web sites that you know. To boot from you cd rom drive: Enter the BIOS setup menu->Bios Features Setup->Boot Sequence, then change the boot sequence to some thing like this CDROM,C,A. Save the new settings and reboot your pc with the win xp cd in the cd drive. Now make a desired selection. Or, to boot from floppy disk drive: after making the 6 boot disks, reboot your pc with disk #1 in drive a: and follow the on screen instructions. Bye

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when i go to use the cd rom...it says that it cannot run in dos mode

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What exactly are you trying to do, and what kind of computer and cdrom drive do you have? The cdrom manufacturers sometimes have drivers that can be loaded to allow it to work in DOS. Do you have an operating system installed on this computer? A Windows 98 bootdisk from startdisk.com might let you access the drive. Are you trying to install XP or is it already installed? You need to give more information.

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xp is lready installed but i get an error...(stop:c0000218 registry something failure,...system dump..etc) so i wanted to reinstall winxp...but i can't seem to get to my c prompt...and when i get to my cdrom drive (through a win98 boot disk)...and run setup, i get a message saying that i cannot run it in dos mode hope that helps some...i'm really stressed...i really need to access something very important..before tomorrow :(

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mykhull Download the 4 mb file. Once you have downloaded it, open it (It's an EXE file) A DOS program will start asking you to insert a 144mb floppy (Label it number 1). The program will write to this disk and then ask for another (Label it 2), and so on until you have 6 disks. These are your boot disks (All 6). insert number 1 and reboot. You can now either re-partition, format and re-install OR Repair your windows XP installation.

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this sounds promising...whether it works or not...i want to thank everyone for their help...i really reallly appreciate the effort

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k it seems to be working....i'm in the repair option right now...and in the windows promt section...if i click help i geta list of words...which will help me fix my registry failure?

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do yourself a favour & re-install xp overtop of itself, you shouldn't lose any of your files

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i can't seem to even reinstall it if i load it up, i get the blue screen...if i use the 6 boot up files...and choose to estup, it won't recognize my cd rom to install it...it keeps saying to press enter...and i do, and again...without a response i can't seem to get the cdrom to work, and have it install

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http://www.webtree.ca/windowsxp/repair_xp.htm

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Here's the Microsoft article dealing with that problem. Tried to post it earlier tonight, but this site was down for a while: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q307545

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Mykhull I dont know the prompt to repair the registry,sorry. You can use the help command to find out what each prompt does. I dont even know if you can repair the registry???? If i were you i would swallow deeply and do a clean install.Its the only way to fix the problem without creating others. James suggested installing XP over itself,unfortunatly you cannot do this with these boot disks or with XP PRO, which i presume you have. A clean install is the way to go. Using the boot disks, remove the partition and create a new one to the maximum size of your hard drive (its easy , just follow the on screen prompts). Then the boot disks will load up and start the clean installation from the cd. You will loose all data on your hard drive!!!!! A small price to pay for an easy life.You can soon get it all back. DIRK

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