ok i was wondering if anyone can help. i have 2 hardisks attached to my pc and id like to install xp on the 2nd hdd (formatted it from xp using my other hdd) but i cant get the xp cd to anything on startup (bascially i disable the xp drive and enable the other hdd inthe bios) , i

had this prob before so i just downloaded the xp "setup" disks and everything was sweet but now i cant seem to create the disks im getting the following error

thanks for your help this site has been really good to me so far

turn off & unplug computer, swap the drives around (set the current master to slave and slave to master) plug computer back in, turn on and hit F2 on startup go to Boot sequence and move your CD Rom drive to the top of the list and follow the on-screen instructions (i have just had to do this because i had a problem and couldnt do repair install so i lost everything)

As to your 16 bit MS-DOS Subsystem error:

http://support.microsoft.com/default...b;en-us;324767