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 goes through the whole process but then when I choose to reinstall it doesn't find my hard drive and says it can't continue and must now reboot.

This is obviously all related to Bjorne's post and then Sanne's as we all seem to have had the same error thanks to AdAware.

Just going to check their site for help as suggested by someone; will let you know any outcome. Otherwise -any more help from anyone??

It won't access my CDROM, not does it seem to recognise my hard drive, though i have now got it seeking the floppy successfully.

Cheers