Re: Help, XP ate my pc!!!
From: Jen (anonymous_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 03/12/04
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Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2004 22:05:33 -0800
All fixed now, spent about an hour and a half on the phone
with tech support and we copied the setup files from the
cd to the c drive and installed from there. And wow, it
works! I'm so thrilled, i thought my pc was a gonner!
Thanks for all the advice! :)
Jen
>-----Original Message-----
>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/
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>
>"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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