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Booting from CD/Vista preinstalled
Name: Garr Date: May 11, 2007 at 17:54:41 Pacific OS: Windows XP SP2 CPU/Ram: Athlon XP 3000/ 512 Product: Emachines
Comment:
I have an acer lappy with two 55GB partitions and want XP on the second however i cant boot from the XP cd to run the install
i set the boot order in the bios and tried pressing keys to boot from cd but no dice, have also tried 3 diffeerent XP cds but none let me boot from them.
My Acer restore cd however boots fine, now call me nuts but is vista protecting itself by detecting an attempt to install another OS and killing the boot routine??
"is vista protecting itself by detecting an attempt to install another OS and killing the boot routine??"
That boot sequence takes place outside of Windows (even Vista) so that would be... no
I'm not one of those who think Bill Gates is the devil. I simply suspect that if Microsoft ever met up with the devil, it wouldn't need an interpreter.
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Response Number 3
Name: ham30 Date: May 11, 2007 at 19:35:48 Pacific
Reply:
Are you watching the screen closely when trying to boot from the CD? XP CDs require you to hit a keyboard key to boot from it. You only have a couple of seconds, and if you don't hit a key quickly enough, it boots from the hard drive.
"i set the boot order in the bios and tried pressing key to boot from cd"
may have something to do with acer recovery patition. My emachine will boot the XP cd til the cows come home but acer will not. They dont want XP on it once you have vista. something in BIOS prevents XP FROM LOADING but only XP
G was here.
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Response Number 5
Name: 1stepbeyond Date: May 12, 2007 at 10:14:11 Pacific
Reply:
Hi disable d2d in the bios, now try booting from your xp cd.
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