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trying to boot a pc to install Xp with 2 hdd's, netldr missing?

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I have 2 hdd's on one cable, bios identifies both drives, but now when I goto boot at verifiing dmi pool, it stops and says netdlr not found..

anyone have this before?
 
Well it sounds to me as though you're not actually booting off the CD's and it's trying to load whatever is/was on one of those disks previously. You need to make sure you're setup to boot off CD, through either a couple ways:

1) If your BIOS supports it, you might see a thing when you first turn it on that will tell you to press a certain key for the boot menu. For Dell's it's generally F12 I believe. This would be the quickest way to try and verify it's booting from CD.

2) If you don't see anything like that, go into your BIOS setup and look for a menu that refers to the boot order. Change it so that your CD-ROM or whatever media you're trying to boot from is above BOTH of the hard drives (or just the word hard drive if it doesn't list individual devices). Then reboot. You'll still need to press a key when it says "Press a key to boot from CD-ROM...." or whatever it says so keep an eye out.

If you know both of these things already I'm sorry but have no idea at this point what could be wrong.
 
The thing I AM fairly certain of is that your computer is trying to boot from one of the hard drives and NOT your install media...
 
You will get this error if you've mistakenly left a floppy in your floppy drive. That's the first thing I would check.
 
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