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yeah i tryed installing from within the windows enviroment, just like xp pro when i used the upgrade feature to intall over 98, but i tryed this b4 even burning to disk, as it would have saved me wasting a disk, but when setup files are executed in windows it just says "This version of windows must be installed by booting from CD, Please reboot your pc with the CD in the drive" thanx agein for the reply!

well i tryed yet agein. their is deffinately no winnt or winnt16 files on the disk at all, only the winnt32 in the amd64 folder not the i386 folder. i have the latest version of nero, but when i choose burn image to disk and choose the file it requests it to be copyed to cd-r and wont let me burn it to dvd, hence the reason i unpacked it to harddrive then burnt the files to disk. im not sure if its the boot disk thats in the 64bit iso file from MS, thats not working properly, but i can see all my drives ext, just cant run the install file for gettin "cant run in dos mode" for everything i try! is their anyone out their who've installed this 64bit version of xp and give me some pointers to what im doing wrong...do i have the wrong boot disk utlilites? as i dont get the normal "boot from cd-rom" like other boot disks iv used! i'v allso read about having to download special drivers for the boot disk to work my components properly during install, but only seen this about SATA hd's, im using my old IDE 40gig Maxtor. amd 3000+ 64x 512ddr 333 Elitegroup 755-A motherboard and GF4000 128mb gfx Samsung sh-w08a

well i tryed your ideas, none of wich worked :S. I have the files extracted on my hard drive as u mentioned, so i decided to try and install from hd, rebooted with boot disk, went to dir where the winnt32 file u mentioned was, but it cannot be ran in dos mode, same as the setup file! i made a boot disk (i think A:\ format>Creat ms-dos start up disk?) but with this i cannot access my dvd drive. so i also tryed one of the copys i made, because its ment to have the boot fils on their. i can access all drives with the disk but still cant open either setup file or winnt32 file! whats it take to install this darn thing:P lol any other ideas would be much welcome thanx agein

thanx mate for quick reply. I'll try it out now and report back soon...wish me luck

Hi, I recently bought a new motherboard(elitegroup 775-A),cpu(amd 64bit 3000+) and 512ddr333 ram. Problem is...installing the 64bit version of xp. I downloaded the beta version from microsoft. But I did not have any blank cd-r's and there for, nero would not let me burn the image file to a dvd-r. So I unpacked the files inside the image file, and burned them to a dvd disk. I reboot pc and it finds the disk, it installs some drivers then hangs at A:\ when i try and execute the setup.exe file it says this file cannot be ran in dos mode! I don't know what im doing wrong! Does the image file NEED to be burned to cd-r and not dvd? If this is not the case what burning software will solve my problem as nero wont work, I'v tryed everything and am running low on blank dvd's:P Can anyone help me with this problem.... Thanx in advance:)