Hi nlday, the UK keyboard is slightly different than the American, a few keys are in different places. So in the UK we have to put a few extra commands in the dos startup files to make the keyboard function correctly. I put the UK files in my post, and the REM statements just stop that line from working, if you want to you could even delete those lines.

You can safely test both the boot options on your Bootdisk, as long as you don't have the XP Cdrom in your drive.
I would suggest that you boot your machine with the Bootdisk in and choose the first option, then place any CD in your drive and type the following.

X: press enter
Dir Press enter

this should then display the contents of your CD.

Hope it works OK for you.

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Backup Boogaloo, you know it makes sense to do.