* You shouldn't have to do this step if you avoid pressing any key when the XP disk says 'Press any key to boot from CD.' but not having the CD in the drive in the first place eliminates the potential for something to go wrong here and it boot from the CD anyway. I think it will still want the CD at some point during installation, so put the CD back in after the XP setup starts to load from the hard drive. If you choose not to do this step, your system could become infected with a virus or worm exploiting the vulnerabilities that Service Pack 3 fixes. The user may have any time, xp pro systems in disk clean install packaged. Before the install/reinstallation of Windows XP, I highly recommend that you download Service Pack 3 for multiple computers and burn it onto a CD. XP's initial setup puts the crap on the hard drive so it will boot from the hard drive and continue the installation. installs another one windows xp pro requirements as well done and requirements. The computer then tries to boot from CD, there isn't one, so it goes to 2nd priority boot device, the hard drive. On the Welcome to Microsoft Windows XP page, click Install Windows. Open a command prompt and go to the folder containing SP2 (XPSP2 in our example). Insert the Windows XP CD in your computers CD-ROM or DVD-ROM drive. We'll name this folder (also on the C: drive) WinXP. When the computer reboots during setup, remove the XP CD*. Copy the contents of your Windows XP CD to your hard drive. XP, I believe says 'press any key to boot from CD.' press a key so you ensure it boots off the XP CD.Ĥ. Set BIOS boot order to this: 1st CDROM, 2nd Hard Drive (nothing else matters after this point)Ģ. Here is what I would do (perhaps you've already done this and it didn't work):ġ.

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