Re: Help, XP ate my pc!!!

From: Jupiter Jones [MVP] (jones_jupiter_at_hotnomail.com)
Date: 03/12/04 

Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2004 20:59:28 -0700

Jen;
As long as CD is before hard drive it should boot to CD.
Since the option is available in BIOS it is capable.

Insert the Windows XP CD
Reboot
There will be a message "Press any key to boot to CDROM"
The message will only be visible for a few seconds and you must press
an key at that time.
Or you could just tap a key about once a second during boot. 

-- 
Jupiter Jones  [MVP]
http://www3.telus.net/dandemar/
"Jen" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:b83501c407e4$1d24b7a0$a401280a@phx.gbl...
> I bout the pc last year at a pc shop, they put a new
> mother board in a new case, put in my brand new still in
> the box 40 gig hard drive and new burner, as well as the
> cdrom from my old pc and floppy from my old pc in it....so
> it's not really that old.. the old cdrom is about 4 years
> old now as is the floppy.
>
> I've configured the BIOS (originally set to skip the cdrom
> and floppy to boot) to start with the cdrom, then floppy,
> then the IDE.  That didn't work, so i changed it to cd
> rom, cd rom, IDE... no luck, so i tried, floppy, cdrom,
> IDE, no luck.  It's now set back to cdrom, floppy, IDE...
>
> I'm trying the start up disks again, skipping the NTFS
> section if i can...

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