The floppy is a boot disk made to work with ME, it won't work with XP, and XP doesn't need it anyway.
1. Take out the floppy and put it to one side.
2. Put the XP CD in the CD drive.
3. Reboot the machine.
4. With no floppy and no system on the HDD it may go straight to the CD and boot into the XP set up menu. If not, reboot and follow the instructions above on how to change the BIOS boot order.
5. If that doesn't work, your motherboard doesn't support boot from the CD, and you'll need to get a set of XP boot floppies as described above.
(It's not relevant, but I came across this today and thought I'd share it.)
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