| Re: Brand New installation of XP Pro SP2 not booting..
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Originally Posted by camoranesi16 nmy windows CD is an original, but its been around for some time and probably gone a bit bad lately...
in DOS when I boot with Cd support from Win98 floppy it tells me that installation cannot be run from DOS...
whn I entered I386 and entered winnt... it told me that my harddrive didnt have enough space for installation... ?? | The "...enough space for installation." is because you're booting from a Win98 floppy...only support for FAT32 and the fact that you have no partitions defined on your new SATA drive. "Winnt.exe" is only for situations where you have a pre-defined partition setup and/or network based installations. You, my friend, need a good copy of the bootable XP CD and/or a working reader.
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