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CD-rom boot error code 5
Name: Martin C. Date: December 21, 2001 at 08:58:49 Pacific
Comment:
my friend has an original windows xp cd. when i try booting from it on his system it says that booting from the cd failed Code 5 ive tried bootingit from his cdrom and his cd-rewriter and they both do the same thing...
anybody have a clue as to what the problem might be?
Name: L. Yearwood Date: December 21, 2001 at 10:20:31 Pacific
Reply:
I have had very few problems with original CDs. Removing the CD-rewriter from your system for the operation in question might help.
I have no idea what "boot error code 5" is.
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Response Number 2
Name: Marcel Date: January 28, 2002 at 10:58:35 Pacific
Reply:
I have the same problem on one of my 2000 machines at home. One is fine, the other wont boot off a 2000 cd to install! It WILL boot off of a win98 cd... not sure what the difference is. So I installed 98 and then installed 2000 over it (ran it from 98). Also, now that 2000 is installed, the cdrom wont autorun. Hmmm.... OS->Motherboard incompatibilty??? quite possibly.... I haven't flashed the bios yet. That might very well be the solution. Did you figure anything yet?
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Response Number 3
Name: L. Yearwood Date: January 29, 2002 at 08:31:07 Pacific
Reply:
No. However, I suspect the post-98 CD drivers MS has written are designed to do two things (by order of importance):
1. Thwart copying of original or copy-protected CDs
2. Read/write CDs
In accomplishing the first, did the second suffer? I can't say. I know very little programming; so you'll have to accept the above for what it's worth (a guess without substantiation).
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Response Number 4
Name: J.Crooy Date: January 31, 2002 at 11:55:03 Pacific
Reply:
Had the same problem, Flashed the Bios and all was good.
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