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How Can I boot my Dell Dimension 4700 to a windows XP SP1 Bootable installation disk, I've tried changing the boot sequence and everything:( It just won't work, I don't know where to begin with this dinosaur.

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Are you saving the boot sequence? cuz thats all you do is what you have done. but you have to read the page and push the correct button to save this setting. and are you leaving the disk in the machine? leave it in and retry

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IDE-2 means Sec master ?
IDE-3 means Sec slave ?

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master with slave ::'::

???????????????? slave? :::':

note the plastic jumper is ' located at the rear of the hard drive next to the IDE/SATA lead/s

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