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Ducati Meccanica
Bikes: '01 Ducati 748R and '04 Mille RSVR
Posts: 2,665
Join Date: Apr 1999
Location: Nr Boroughbridge, North Yorkshire
Mood: Awaiting the arrival of the sun and the disappearance of the rain
Thanx Frank,
Yup,
Altered my Bios to go to ATAPI CD ROM first then floppy then HDD. SYstem just boots up as normal although I am getting a screen where I have to choose between XP Pro (my normal OS) and the aborted XP Pro setup (the one I initially began from the XP Setup CD from winthin Windows)
Tried the boot from floppy (made the floppy from 'Format in Windows and then 'ticked' the 'make system disk' option).
When I follow SP's notes all I get is the old chestnut "Invalid Drive Specification"
Am afraid that if I do get to a stage of formatting my HDD, I will then not be able to read floppy or CD in order to get my OS back on again.
Any advice JPM or SP??
Thanks in advance
Guy
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