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Thanks to you all: Problem solved by hitting delete enough time during the attempted boot from the CDROM. CDs are gen - came from a good retailer with the PC. Agree about Win98SE not working on a big HD - but was desperate at that point. great forum - thanks again

Hi folks - I'm new , and yes got a problem. I've reformatted my PC (came new 6 months ago with stand alone XP Pro - pretty high spec - P4, 1GbRAM). Have tried reinstalling XP Pro from the Boot discs and get a message involving "value 0 on the line in section [sourceDisksFile] with key SPI.cab". Have tried reformatting again from DOS, have now removed all my partitions and reformatted, and then tried loading my WIN 98SE, whic will only boot in Safe Mode. Only glitch I can find is that the available disc size seems to be about 8MB les than it should be - (152.6 onstead of 160Gb). Any help much appreciated.