Hi,
I hope we are on the same page and I understand what you are trying to do, but if not just tell me and we will go at it from another direction.
First of all, enter the BIOS setup menu and set your boot order to:
CDRom
Floppy
Hard Drive (that you want to boot from)
Note: If you have been using Win98 on this computer and have not changed the BIOS settings, change PnP to Disabled for Win XP.
Don't forget to save before you exit.
Assuming you have a regular copy of XP (not startup disks), then put your Operating System disk in the CDRom, turn on the computer and it should start to load XP. (otherwise, don't use any boot disk in A:....the dos program is not an issue if loading XP)
Let me know what happens.
I hope we are on the same page and I understand what you are trying to do, but if not just tell me and we will go at it from another direction.
First of all, enter the BIOS setup menu and set your boot order to:
CDRom
Floppy
Hard Drive (that you want to boot from)
Note: If you have been using Win98 on this computer and have not changed the BIOS settings, change PnP to Disabled for Win XP.
Don't forget to save before you exit.
Assuming you have a regular copy of XP (not startup disks), then put your Operating System disk in the CDRom, turn on the computer and it should start to load XP. (otherwise, don't use any boot disk in A:....the dos program is not an issue if loading XP)
Let me know what happens.