Re: XP 64bit edition

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From: Yves Leclerc (yleclercNOSPAM_at_maysys.com)
Date: 11/11/04 

Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2004 13:48:35 -0500

With 2000 and XP, you can not make a bootable floppy disc. You should be
able to download a set of 2000, of XP, install floppy discs from Microsoft.

"Cueball" <Cueball@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:DF63AA31-5788-4DE5-BF2F-F0FEB8C39993@microsoft.com...
> Having downloaded the files for installing the XP 64 OS i have been unable
> to
> make a bootable disc for installing the system. I have made a bootbale cd,
> an
> ISO cd, a data cd and none will work. i have unrared the files and opened
> the
> resulting file and put them onto a disc (hope that is the right way).
>
> after making the bootable disc and changing the bios boot sequence i got
> the
> following message
>
> starting caldera DR-DOS
> EMM386 3.27 Copyright (c) 1992, 1998 Caldera inc. All Roghts Reserved
> EMM386 Warning: Address line A20 Already enabled
> Frame = D000 Kb =
>
> All the discs except the "bootable" one i made just results in the pc
> booting from the hdd into xp home edition, regardless of the boot sequence
> Am i making the disc correctly or is there another problem i am not
> spotting?
>
> i have an athlon 64 3200+ 1024mb RAM

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