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Cd rom failure on boot
Name: Nigel1 Date: April 2, 2004 at 02:20:15 Pacific OS: XP CPU/Ram: ATHLON 1GH
Comment:
I booted my pc from a boot dics and have reformatted my hard drive of XP so I can reload the operating system back on but when I try to boot from the CD rom (master) I get the following error
BOOT FROM ATAPI CD ROM : FAILURE
I have set the bios to boot from CD rom and also swapped the cd drive over with a known working one and still the same, the drive is powered up but will not boot, It was all fine but its just stopped working, I have checked all the IDE connections and all seem ok, any help on what to do or any checks would be most appreciated
Name: Hooner Date: April 2, 2004 at 02:30:08 Pacific
Reply:
Try downloading the 6 Xp startup floppies from Microsoft.com and use those to boot with. Hopefully when you get to the Xp setup screen your CDROM should work.
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