Your Windows XP CD is bootable -- no need to boot from a floppy.

Ensure that your BIOS is set to boot from CD-ROM, insert your Win XP CD in
the drive, reboot, and follow the yellow brick road of prompts.

steve


"Intelinside850" <Intelinside850@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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>I want to format my hard drive but I can't make a boot disk becasue I don't
> have a floppy drive. Is there a way to boot into ms-dos without a boot
> disk?