Re: Boot Up from Disk

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From: Plato (|_at_|.|)
Date: 10/10/04 

Date: 10 Oct 2004 05:38:43 -0500

Michael Stevens wrote:
>
> > I can no longer boot from my Windows XP disk. It either fails to
> > recognise the disk alltogether or it gives me the "Press any key to
> > boot from CD" but then refuses, saying eith ntldr.dll is missing or
> > just booting from HDD as usual. Any ideas? Has my CD screwed the
> > pooch??
>
> Dirty, scratched, cracked, XP CD, or bad, dirty, misconfigured CD drive. The
> bios is setting the drive properly and giving the correct instruction to
> press any key to boot, but the CD drive or CD is bad. Try booting the CD in
> another computer. This will eliminate the CD as the problem, and you can
> focus on the hardware as the source of the problem.

Or perhaps that't a reason MS makes setup disk sets available:

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/release.asp?releaseid=33290
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/release.asp?releaseid=42818
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=15491F07-99F7-4A2D-983D-81C2137FF464&displaylang=en

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/release.asp?releaseid=33291
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/release.asp?releaseid=42819
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=535D248D-5E10-49B5-B80C-0A0205368124&displaylang=en

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