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xp won't boot
Name: sodernbelle Date: December 16, 2008 at 17:31:05 Pacific OS: windows xp CPU/Ram: 2000 Product: Compaq presario desktop pc / PRESARIO
Comment:
I changed my bios setting to cd first and still when I put my Windows Xp Cd in it isn't pulling up...not sure what to do to reinstall xp on my computer.I also made a boot disc for the a drive but it is requiring me type in something and I'm not exactly computer savvy....please help!!!
Name: paulsep Date: December 16, 2008 at 18:27:13 Pacific
Reply:
If your bootdisk in drive A also loads a driver for your CD drive, you can boot from floppy disk, at dos prompt type in D: and then press enter. D is the drive letter of your CD drive. This may vary, depending on how many harddisks are installed and how many partitions are on the harddrive(s). So you may have to use another drive letter. Simply try out different letters. Then type in cd \i386 winnt
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Response Number 2
Name: kx5m2g Date: December 16, 2008 at 19:54:13 Pacific
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You may have to hit enter after seeing "hit any key to boot from CD" or something similar to that. By the way, why do you want to reinstall XP ? Your Presario probably has a recovery partition and/or a recovery CD which allows you to reinstall the computer the way you bought it.
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Response Number 3
Name: Jennifer SUMN Date: December 17, 2008 at 06:06:11 Pacific
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Are you having problems? Is that why you want to reinstall?
"So won’t you give this man his wings What a shame To have to beg you to see We’re not all the same What a shame" - Shinedown
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Response Number 4
Name: avrain27 Date: December 18, 2008 at 00:06:03 Pacific
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your cd may not be bootable. in this case, you will need to get a bootable xp installation cd or first install a lower version system such as win 2000 and they upgrade it to win xp. good luck
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