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Patrick77

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February 1st, 2004 20:00

Is the problem BIOS?

I have formated HD on my Inspiron 8100 (BIOS A15 upg. was A04) I have problem to install Windows XP.  I start with startup disk, then I write E:\ setup.exe I get message " This operation can't run in MS-DOS mode. How do I instal Windows XP? Is BIOS the problem? Please can you help!

Thank you very much

Patrick

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    mrdata030

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    Posted February 1st, 2004 21:00

    I would make sure that if this is a full install and not an upgrade to blow away all partitions and then boot up with the xp cd and let it create the partition and format it with ntfs or if that does not work then reboot and create a full partition with fat32 , format it and the reboot with the xp cd and let it convert the partition to ntfs.
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    Mr Rich

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    Posted February 2nd, 2004 21:00

    See if this site helps.

    http://www.winsupersite.com/showcase/windowsxp_sg_clean.asp

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    Davin

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    Posted February 3rd, 2004 13:00

    The XP CD is bootable. It will take you thru some basic screens before loading into the OS. Since you are not seeing these screens, you either are not booting to the CD [check bios settings - try F12 on POST] or the XP CD might be bad. That would be my guess.

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