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I am trying to enter Bios to scanreg to try to get rid of a fatal exception od at 0028:cf171abc with a good start up disk. When I power up and enter bios and get to A:/ and then try to enter c and then enter I get CDR101 not ready reading drive E abort,retry,fail I am not very computor smart so keep it simple as possible thanks
Name: moonlighter Date: May 3, 2002 at 10:05:36 Pacific
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cdr101 means that you don't have the correct cdrom driver loaded (or loaded at all... doesn't seem to be your case if you don't get an "invalid drive specification" when accessing E:), the cdrom lens is dirty and can't read the disc, there is no disc in the cdrom drive, the cdrom drive is defective, or the cdrom disc is defective.
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Response Number 2
Name: George Date: May 3, 2002 at 19:12:02 Pacific
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Are you trying to go into you BIOS or are you trying to boot to a boot disk?
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Response Number 3
Name: Cork Date: June 26, 2002 at 07:29:12 Pacific
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If this is about Windows XP, how do you enter the BIOS anyway? Thank you.
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