Re: Can't boot from XP CD
From: DDMG (ddmg_at_microsoft.com)
Date: 08/21/04
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Date: Fri, 20 Aug 2004 19:45:01 -0700
I had the same challenge. CD was not being read so I diud the six floppies
and it triggered the CD but then ask me to put the CD into the drive and hit
enter. Still no go. I had tried earlier installing xp pro from another
machine. No problem. But it will hnot read in the origional machine. It tells
me its an ivallid disk.
Any ideas?
"Raymond" wrote:
>
> "Andy" <g@g.com> wrote in message
> news:qlq0i0tu1b1bao03r3dvppmftv35n4gupp@4ax.com...
> > hi all
> >
> > Recently my girlfriend's fairly old PC started having problems - blue
> > screen, not starting, freezing etc. About 3 weeks before this I'd put
> > more memory in it and a PCI>USB card, no problems on install and it
> > worked fine after install.
> >
> > After about 3 weeks XP started to complain that some drivers were
> > corrupt/missing (isapnp.sys, pci.sys). I replaced both of these from
> > the XP disk on one of the rare occasions it did start correctly, then
> > it was fine for a week.
> >
> > This morning it apparently decided enough was enough and gave errors
> > about the registry and (I think) lpsass.exe when my girlfriend tried
> > starting it. Just a blank screen when booting from the HD, safe mode
> > gets as far as c\windows\system then hangs. So I decided to reinstall
> > XP, changed the BIOS to boot from cd only, but now I can't even boot
> > from the XP CD - it says it can't find the boot record for the CDROM.
> >
> > any advice?
>
> I've experienced a similar problem in being unable to boot from the Windows
> XP CD
> even though I'd set the BIOS to do so. I also downloaded the six floppy
> setup floppies
> and these didn't work either. It takes ages to run the floppies and you
> eventually get to a screen
> where you have to choose an installation. Choose any of them and the
> computer freezes.
>
> To solve the problem I resorted to taking the hardrive out of my machine and
> attaching it to
> another machine which would boot from CD. I successfully installed Windows
> XP and
> returned it to my own computer. It's bit of a faff, but everything works
> fine now.
>
> Hope this might help.
>
> Raymond
>
>
>
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