They didn't know where the cd was and just went on to use win98, they screwed up win98 and they had to format that partition and reinstall win98. When they did that it overwrote the winxp boot loader, ...

I found that the older beige case Dells will not boot from a Dell XP OEM CD, but that newer black case Dells that shipped with Windows ME would boot from the the Dell OEM CD & the install would be pre ...

In this Recipe, I'll cover slipstreaming, the process of creating a bootable Windows XP CD with all service packs and security updates pre-installed. Creating a slipstream disc may take a bit of time ...