Solve : installing winxp no cdrom boot in bios?

1.	Solve : installing winxp no cdrom boot in bios?
Answer» just an old system on putting back in service after a hdd failure.I have DONE this before by using a dos boot disk, and having the cdrom drivers load on start up.problem is someone took my old boot disk. and I no longer have the files to WRITE for autoexec.bat,config.sys, mscdex.exe, and a cdrom.sys driver file.Can someone please help me out? Thanks in advance. woodybutshouldhe..... Go to bootdisk.com and d/l a win 98 boot disk ....... besure it has the Fdisk on it as well . That should get you going ...... dl65 What is the computer or MOTHERBOARD make/model and the computer configuration - processor/RAM/hard drive? If it can't boot from CDROM is it enough of a computer to run XP? In fact there is a relatively easy solution to this problem. Smart BootManager enables you to boot from CDROMs even though the BIOS may not support that. That SAID, if your BIOS is so old it doesn't boot from CD, the system is likely to be so slow that your WinXP EXPERIENCE will be painful at best.

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