Re: Can't boot from CD

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I checked. The boot order is fine. I switched it to CD, floppy, then
hard drive, but it still won't work.

Cari (MS-MVP) wrote:
Check the BIOS. It sounds like it's not looking for a bootable CD before it
looks for the hard drive.
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Cari (MS-MVP)
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"jeffrey" <johjeffrey@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I am trying to reinstall Windows on my computer. I had XP, I formatted
my hard drive, now my computer won't boot from the XP CD. I know my CD
is ok because I installed from it in the past. I know my CD drive is
ok because I used it right before formatting the hard drive. But after
formatting, I can't access anything at all. I checked all the cables
to make sure they're hooked up. When I boot the computer, I get the
blue HP logo, then I get a "Non boot disk" error.


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