Expert: Donald Fisher - 7/22/2007

Question
Hi there , I need to re formate my drive. I don't have a floppy disk installed, I do have one but since I upgraded my power supply the data cables don't fit to it (nice one) So now   
I'm attempting to boot from my Win Xp cd . I have set in bios boot from cd rom as first boot , I have set my boot hdd to Master(as most forums seem to suggest). Now when I bootup I am asked to press any key to boot from cd rom - but when I do nothing happens and I continue to boot to windows. My Xp CD has no scratches or marks, and my dvd writer seems to be working fine in all other areas

I have then attempted to create a boot drive with my flash drive . not having much luck there either. Please any help here would be much appreciated

Answer
This site has a great tutorial for creating a bootable WinXP install CD.

http://www.nu2.nu/bootcd/#wxp

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