That error message means. You must have tried to boot up to a floppy diskette. The diskette ( 's ), were made with a defective floppy drive.To re-download the Setup Disks for Floppy Boot Install of Win XP click the link below:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=E8FE6868-6E4F-471C-B455-BD5AFEE126D8&displaylang=en
Option if you have a cdrom in notebook & a real Win XP CD. Put the win xp cd in the cdrom drive. Start the Pc laptop & press the F8 key every two seconds. Windows will display a boot up option menue. Choose the cdrom. Win XP will start the installation.
If it keeps crashing than you have no choice but to format the hard drive it is loading on. When Windows begins it shows the partitions listed on the drive. There should only be one partition. If there is more than one partition & this other partition is listed in front of (on top) of the listed, c:\ (size shown) partition delete it.
Ex: D:\ NTFS size 4,000Mb.
C:\ NTFS size 71,0000Gb. You will need to delete the D:\
The only drive partition you want ic C:\. Than preform a Quick format. Windows should install & not crash. WARNING ALL DATA will be erased. If you post back with the model number & Mfg's name I can post a link for Win XP drivers for your notebook. Lastly, when finished & Win did not crash be sure to turn on windows firewall before going on line.
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thank you will try it
windows does try to load and it keeps crashing
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