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i found this forum link on the site and it describing the precise problem i am having. Just reading through so don't know the outcome yet....

Finally got it to recognize my floppy boot disks by resetting my BIOS to defaults then just changing the floppy seek (it may have reactivated the self-test).

When booting XP from the 6 disks it...

Haven't got the CD-rom anymore. Just tried the boot disks in another computer and (whilst CD5 had a problem), the first CD worked fine and took me to the Windows setup screen.

But it dosn't in my...

Have changed it in my setup upon initial boot to - recognise floppy for booting' but no joy again......

this is killing me!

I am trying to reboot from 6x XP setup disks but my computer won't recognise the first disk. I have gone into my setup and enabled it to seacrh from floppy disk for booting, but it still doesn't go...

No joy I'm afraid. I created a floppy boot disk and used the XP cd but it doesn't seem to want to recognise the CD/A: before it gets to the login screen.

What do i do now??

This souns like precisely the same problem I am having right now. Is there any other option than a new install cos I can't find my boot disk?

And where does this come from? Any way of protecting...

I often find that cheaper CDs are ignored quite often even if I *know* there is stuff on them. Try a few different CDR/CDRWs first - it may be as simple as the disk is a bit crap!

It gives me that option in safe mode but i doesnt accept any particular passwords, nor a blank one. I don't think one was ever set up, but nonetheless i can't seem to get in via that.

I can't seem...

Hi

I have a problem even getting into my main computer.

I recently downloaded Adaware to rid myself of a lot of the popup ads and registry keys -all worked fine. I have Norton AntiVirus which...