Re: new PC catch-22

Robert Baer wrote:

There are no floppies for installing Win XP Professional (OEM).
The system will boot from a hard drive with DOS 6.22 or from a DOS
floppy, no problem.
No boot from the XP CD under *any* conditions (yet).


http://www.bootdisk.com/


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