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Formatting a clean computer


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k yeah ill try that.
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AAAAAAH!!!! What the...! i put in my own hard drie from this computer, and i still get Caldera Dr-Dos. maybe its part of the xp boot cd?
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If you have a clean drive, you boot directly from the XP CD, no other disc is needed to load anything

If you used a floppy or anything, check the only disc in any drive is the XP CD
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it is the only disc, it IS a clean drive. i dont get it........
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At a command prompt, type drive:setup.exe
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k well i finally managed to et it working, alhtouhg i dont know how, but im sure it had to do with that command above.
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Hope it goes well from here on
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its going fine, thanx alot keith.
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