Big Lar, there are only 2 items in my boot order, Floppy and HD.
Uncle Bob, I'm not trying to install XP from floppy.
I booted up with a WIN98 setup disk but the CD drivers wouldn't load because it's looking for an ATAPI CD drive NOT Serial ATA, which is what I have.
Does anybody know...
As I said in the first post, I am unable to access the DVD/CD drive as it's unrecognized. I was trying to boot from floppy's, load CD drivers and then of course load XP.
Right now it says "NTLDR is missing. Press Ctrl Alt Del to restart." It's an endless loop.
I just now sat down to work...
Oops. Accidentally posted before I was done typing.
The single drive is partitioned NTFS and ready to go. The boot sequence is 1) floppy 2) HD -- no CD.
RAID is set to IDE for single drive. I feel I'm getting close on this. If I can boot from CD then I'm thinking XP install might clear...
Please help. I've read a million posts on various sites and worked countless hours on my new system, but my 2 big problems remain. My system config is in my signature.
1) Using the 6 XP boot floppy disks downloaded from MS, it errors out on the 6th disk (2 different sets) and doesn't allow...
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