popalazarous
hi,
im trying to get a new operating system on my hard drive but i cant boot from the xp cd, ive tried all the bios settings but to no avail. Can anyone give us a hand??? :knife:
im trying to get a new operating system on my hard drive but i cant boot from the xp cd, ive tried all the bios settings but to no avail. Can anyone give us a hand??? :knife:
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janus
Is this a retail or a burned CD?
Anonymous
did you try to deactivate any other boot device then CD ?
but then you have to watch setup ... when he restarts you got to change back to boot from HDD
but then you have to watch setup ... when he restarts you got to change back to boot from HDD
NIKEMARINE
is your cd-rom a primary device and not a slave.
El_Coyote
when using backups of cd's boottracks are not always present. that may be your problem.
Zorro
Installing from a slave cd-rom works...master/slave doesn't matter. Is ur winxp cd bootable?
NIKEMARINE
Installing from a slave cd-rom works...master/slave doesn't matter. Is ur winxp cd bootable?
Some BIOS will boot from only primary cd-rom devices.
popalazarous
OP
hi,
ok it seems the new bios has solved the problem. Before i just got a cursor flashing when it should have been looking at the cd, but now it asks to press any key to boot. Thanks guys
ok it seems the new bios has solved the problem. Before i just got a cursor flashing when it should have been looking at the cd, but now it asks to press any key to boot. Thanks guys
Anonymous
just updated BIOS or did you try things above before ?
popalazarous
OP
no, i just updated the bios and then it was able to ask"press any key to boot from cd" weird i know but thats what happened, the new bios fixed it... :wink:
Anonymous
IF cdrom NOT boot THEN exit
ELSE BEGIN
(*** ups forget ***)
END
;)
ELSE BEGIN
(*** ups forget ***)
END
;)
