some problems during winxp installation

[ITlover]

I made 2 bootable floppy disk, 1 from winxp and other from win98 machine. I was just doing some practice installation of winxp and used win98 bootable/startup floppy disk for installation purpose.

I changed the boot priority from HDD to floppy drive and booted the system on win98 bootable floppy ,it took me to A:/> and from here I was able to access my CD-ROM drive and I successfuly ran smartdrv.exe file from my floppy which I copied from winxp cd and winxp installation was completed successfully.

But when I tried to do the same installation of winxp by using winxp bootable floppy, I couldnot access CD-ROM drive and as far as I remember I was neither able to run smartdrv.ex command in dos environment.

I donot understand whats the problem, why am I not geting CD-ROM drive from winxp bootable floppy disk?

Can any 1 help me?

[ktkendall]

WinXP is designed to be installed by just booting from the xp cdrom itself and it will get you into the installation/setup program from there. The XP boot floppy does not automatically load drivers for cdrom drive.

[ITlover]

Thanks for increasing my knowledge, does smartdrv.exe file also not work when we use Winxp bootable floppy?

[glc]

The floppy disk method for installing XP should only be used when you can NOT boot with the CD for whatever reason.

A boot floppy made with XP is not the same as a Win98 boot floppy. It uses a subset of WinME.