lol Nos no you dont...what you want to do is completely reinstall windows and delete everything on your hardrive so its like brand new?...if so

when your computer starts up it should say something like press delete for setup or something or BIOS, press delete before the windows thing starts up where it should say the brand name of your motherboard in the beginning...press delete and it will go into BIOS. Then go to the drives section which will have your hardrives and cd/dvd drives listed, the first drive thats being checked is the floppy which is why you say you need a floppy 98 boot disc but you dont, you have to switch the floppy from 1st and replace it with your cd/dvd drive...this means that instead of the computer booting something from the floppy it will look on the disc. So just switch the floppy with the cd/dvd shit, restart and put the cd in and it will run the boot setup, not the original windows installation...during the boot shit it wont be installing windows but it will ask if you want to delete your hardrive completely and install only windows on it, if you want to, delete it and go on with the windows installation

thats all if you want to install windows xp on a machine without a boot disc

peace

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