Ok if I remember correctly you can not boot from a "boot disk" in XP.
If you just want a dos prompt go to the run box and type cmd and hit
return. A dos window will open inside of XP. XP doesn't use the old
files to load that earlier versions did. It uses NTLDR and BOOT.INI.
Hope this helps.
Vicki
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