error message when booting from floppy disk

[mrdeeye]

Unable to boot from my XP CD it install, I thought i would try to boot from the floppy. I downloaded the 6-Disk boot disk from Microsoft and when I boot all was well until the fourth disk when i recieved this error

"File dmio.sys corrupted"

And then i press enter and it says "Setup Failed press enter to reboot". Any idea what the problem was. My floppy disks themselves are sort of old, do you think spending the 5 bucks on a new set of floppy disks would help anything?

I also was reffered to allbootdisks.com and downloaded their boot disk maker thing and it kept saying

"Floppy Error in track 4 head 0" or something like that. Does that mean that my floppies are toast and i should just buy some new ones? Being broke though, I dont feel like spending money on something thats not gonna work.

[TwoRails]

You can try the disks out on another machine to test them. Way do you want to boot from floppy? meaning: can you boot from your hard drive? is so, then do a full (not quick) format of a couple floppies to see if it makes it, then to a scandisk / chkdisk of the floppy disk. It no disks pass, then most likely the drive failed. You can also swap with a friend to test which is cheapest.