Re: repairing win xp after power loss?

It is not clear whether you have a retail XP CD, or a PC-maker's restore CD,
or an OEM XP CD. Only the first will do a repair.

As for hardware issues, try booting the PC with a plain old DOS boot floppy.
If you do not have one, download one from www.bootdsik.com. Get one with
generic support for CD readers. That should at least tell you whether the
motherboard, CPU, RAM, and CD reader are OK. But, it will not see any NTFS
formatted disks. Be sure to have the boot order specified as first=floppy,
second=CD, third=harddrive.

If that fails, then you have major hardware problems.

If that works, then try making a bootable CD from the floppy. Both Nero and
Easy CD Creator can do this. Try booting the PC with that CD. If it fails,
but if the floppy boot could read a random data CD, then there is something
wrong with the BIOS setup for booting from CD.


"ralph m loudin" <ralphmloudin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:C4293FB0-CF3F-401A-BF63-AF7450877960@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> after power loss am unable to connect to internet. i am unable to use the
> install cd because it will not load at startup. the rom is
> functioning.i've
> set the bios to start from cd drive.no help.???


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