I had a similar problem once. The mater boot loader had been over written by the previous operation system and xp would not boot, installing freedos replaced the MBL with something that XP would the happily install on to.
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I had a similar problem once. The mater boot loader had been over written by the previous operation system and xp would not boot, installing freedos replaced the MBL with something that XP would the happily install on to.