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and if you want to speed up the process of installing this through dos, make sure to start smartdrv.exe. put this on a floppy or bootdisk and start it in dos before u install...

to make things easier in the future, spend a couple minutes before burning the cd to follow the directions on bink's website (link on the main neowin page on the right) to make your cd bootable.

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thanks for your replies guys.

Much appreciated.

However,whilst you were all replying,I was busy trying to get it to install.

Funily enough,I did make another cd and made this bootable,but it still didn't solve the problem.

Anyway,

What I did was just go to my CD drive in MY COMPUTER (I have 2 HDD)and double click the setup.exe from there.I didn't know but,XP seems to have a sort of boot manger like WIn2k,so I could install it on my other HDD.

All went well and it installed fine.

i still don't know why it didn't install from DOS.Is this a common problem?

Thanks again for your help.

Regards,

Matt

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