Re: Reinstallation Problem

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From: Malke (malke_at_nospoonnotreally.com)
Date: 05/19/04 

Date: Wed, 19 May 2004 16:27:03 -0700

Jules wrote:

> I've been on this group back and forth all week because I
> had made a huge mistake of deleting things in my
> registry - thinking they were spyware when they weren't.
> Anyways - the issue is this....ONCE AGAIN. Alot of good
> people were giving me step by step instructions on how to
> reinstall XP, and well...I couldn't get it going. Just
> for some info...I have a Dell Demension Desktop, and Dell
> provides you with a rebootable XP disc for reinstalling
> and such, and I also have a regular XP disc - an official
> one. So I go into BIOS and change the boot up to CD-rom
> first, disable the others....start up the computer, with
> the Dell XP disc...and it doesn't work. The CD won't boot
> up. I keep getting some message about pressing F1 to
> retry, or go back to the setup screen. Can someone
> help...what the hell could I be doing wrong?

Does your Dell have more than one cd drive? Are you putting the
operating system disk (the purplish one, not one of the blue ones) in
the wrong drive? You should get a prompt to "press any key to boot from
the cd". Press a key.

Malke 

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