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multiple xp disc's
Name: superdupernova81 Date: July 2, 2004 at 01:02:27 Pacific OS: windows xp pro. CPU/Ram: unknown
Comment:
i live in the states and i have a friend who lives in germany. she deleted some files and when she tried to install xp again to repair them, she came across a problem. she put in the install disk and started the upgrade. put soon into it, it asked for a differant disk. now i have installed xp many times and it never asked for any other disk. does any body know what is going on. and i told her to change the bios to boot from cd but when she presses delete it goes straight to CMOS. i cant say anymore because i dont know the details. any kind of help or suggestions is greatly appreciated. thank you.
i told her to press delete when it begins to restart and change the bios to boot from the cd but when she did, she went straight to the cmos. with the time date, primamry master, primamry slave, etc.
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