Nad

I only have 3 floppys. Hmm, i might have to try that if I can get a pack of floppies (No one sells them these days). Ill see if the BIOS allows booting from USB devices because I could copy the boot disc onto my USB memory pen and try it with that? From what I remember, that floppy can't read NTFS, so I can't understand why the CDROM is F: but can you see anything on the C: drive when booting that floppy ???. Should a I try the tree command on C: to see if the above suggestion works? Regards, Nad

I use a backup copy of my XP disc. I lost my XP disc a while back and use a backup of it which I made after I purchased it using Nero.

The DOS from the Windows 98 Boot Disc

FDisk was used when i first set up the computer about 1 year ago. Will partition magic do the job or does Acronis have some special features to evade this error? Thanks for replies Nad

F: Is the CD/DVD drive for the computer whilst in DOS. All partitions are NTFS. And this error occurs when I attempt to run setup (by executing winnt in DOS). For all other PCs i have tried it on, the setup program starts up fine, give me hte option to format partitions and choose which one I want to install it on etc. Nad

Hi there. I have been wanting to reinstall XP Professional on my PC however when I type the following in dos: f: cd i386 winnt I get an error stating: "An Internal error has occurred. Could not find a place for a swap file." I dont know what the problem is because if i place the cd into my other pc's and run setup via dos, the setup program works fine. Im not really sure on what i should do - use fdisk, delete C:, recreate it then attempt an install? The thing about that is when writing a floppy disc with windows 98 boot, i keep getting "Disc error in track x, head x. Address mark not found." My HDD is 250 gig, partitioned as follows: C: 20GB D: 19.9GB E: 99.9GB F: 92.8GB I am using 15 gig on C: (OS, apps and files) and about 20 gig on E:, backups. I also have 1gig of ram if it makes any difference? Thanks for reading and thanks in advance for any support! Nad