Here's another possible stretch - your BIOS antivirus might need to be disabled. That can sometimes cause problems
for setup.

Al Thompson

----- Original Message -----
From: "alan smith" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Monday, February 07, 2005 8:47 PM
Subject: Re: [PCBUILD] no os


> Thank you for the reply, however, it goes through ALL FOUR boot floppys
> and into the CD to the install or repair option, then I get the nasty message.
> The CD is brand new, scratch free, and I bought it from a store that builds
> and sells computers, so it's classed as OEM and microsoft wants to charge
> me $150.00CDN for help and I paid $219.00 CDN for the disk. Two years
> ago, I paid $400.00CDN for XP, used it for 3 months and scrapped it. I didn't
> like the way it worked. Thank you for your help.   AL SMITH
>

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