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Posted: July 29 2005,23:35 QUOTE
I have an old Dell Latitude XPICD laptop that dosn't support booting from a cd. i tried using the boot disk but i keep getting the Boot failed error... any suggestions?
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Posted: July 30 2005,02:19 QUOTE
Usually, this means your floppy disk is bad.
Try using a fresh, new one..

How are you writing the image to the floppy?

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