Look in your bios in advanced settings and see if cdrom is only boot device.
Make hdd 0 the first boot or leave cd as first and hdd0 as second. You can
also disable floppy seek at boot and speed things up a tad. If a second o.s.
was listed it would be right under the xp pro
Re: Only boots with CD in drive ... The HDD was not a bootable device in BIOS,... without the CD to boot from, ... > the single boot device?... (microsoft.public.windowsxp.general)
Re: Only boots with CD in drive ... > I would reset the boot order to 1st-CD, ... The HDD was not a bootable device in BIOS, ... >> said, with the HDD as the only boot device, I still get the same error, ... >> If this BIOS setting was set when I installed Windows, ... (microsoft.public.windowsxp.general)
Cold Boot Problem XP pro ... The boot process started normally and then just died at the XP ... cool down, and then turn it on, the first boot fails as above. ...Motherboard Monitor did not indicate any power problem at all. ...gig hard drives and that didn't fix the problem either. ... (microsoft.public.windowsxp.general)
RE: Cold Boot Problem XP pro ... The boot process started normally and then just died at the XP ... > cool down, and then turn it on, the first boot fails as above. ... > Antec Pure Power power supply rated at 550 watts. ... > gig hard drives and that didn't fix the problem either. ... (microsoft.public.windowsxp.general)
Fbreseal problesm with SP2. ...Boot CF. Configure and adjust OS. ...Commit EWF,...Boot duplicated image at customer site or in factory during customer's ...First boot takes a longer time because the SID change is occurring. ... (microsoft.public.windowsxp.embedded)
