Re: Installing XP

From: Steve C. Ray (stevec_at_mail.com)
Date: 03/31/04


Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2004 18:56:18 -0600

You say you checked your BIOS to see if it would boot from the CD. Did you
set the BIOS to have the CD drive as the first boot device?

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Steve C. Ray
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"Rhonda" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:DE1D6F76-B136-4BC5-A65D-B421954783A6@microsoft.com...
> I have a computer that had Windows 98 on it.  I say had because someone
erased some files/programs off of the computer and now it won't boot up the
OS.  I get a fatal error message when I try to start it.  I have Windows XP
that I would like to install on the computer but I can't get the computer to
start up off of the CD-Rom....does anyone have any suggestions for me??
I've checked my BIOS to make sure I can boot off of a cd-rom and that all
seems to be right...what do I do now?


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