how to format harddrive without Floppy Disk Drive

[Felipe]

I want to format both my hard drives and reinstall win xp (on only the master drive). My win xp pro copy isn't legit, and does not have boot capabilities. I have tried to make some boot CD's but they (or me) don't work. Do you have any ideas as to how I can work this issue out? How can I format my drives and reinstall Win Xp without having a working 3.5 floppy disk drive?

(I think I need a "better" win XP pro version, because mine seems to only work when I upgrade from win 98 (must install win 98 after formatting, then upgrade to win xp, then download all the service packs yada yada yada...SO? where can I get one? Ideas?)

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[PoBoy321]

Go into the BIOS and change the boot order so that it checks the CD rom drive before the hard drive.

[Leo99]

I think you're screwed. I install XP either on top of Win98 or from floppy. My copy of XP won't boot either.

[BusterStacks]

Do NOT under ANY circumstances install XP over Win98. If you truly cannot boot from your Windows XP CD even after checking the CH-ROM first in the boot order as described above, then your next step is to burn a bootable DOS CD, which is not hard.

[stabn]

Go buy windows XP.

[RunDownHouse]

You could just use a stolen copy of Win 2kPro instead of your stolen copy of Win XP.

[YourFoxyGrandma]

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Go buy windows XP.

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[Leo99]

WinXP won't install from a DOS boot. Not that I can find it possible.

Why can't you install WinXP over Win98? It worked for me on my secondary machine.

[astroglide]

i could tell you how, but you know what? [censored] you.

[YourFoxyGrandma]

Haha.

[Felipe]

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then your next step is to burn a bootable DOS CD, which is not hard.

[/ QUOTE ] Where do i do that?

[bukkrukk]

some webpage containing info (http://www.nu2.nu/bootcd/)