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October 30th, 2004 22:00

Won't boot from cd rom

Bought a new hard drive, have my bootable xp cd, formatted the hard drive, did everything the web told me to do to set up BIOS( , boot menu, atapi/1st device,
 
I also downloaded bootdisk to try to install xp thru floppy with cd support.
 
With boot disk I load driver for cdrom but 'setup.exe" on D drive(cd) will not work in dos mode.  Wha?
 
If  i install without floppy and BIOS set to cd boot, it tries to read floppy and either gives me invalid disk/ insert disk in drive 'a' or NTLDR missing.
 
Help me obi-won, help me....anyone...anyone...Bueller
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    jbog91

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    Posted October 31st, 2004 23:00

    Whoa. Did you say you put the hard drive as the first device to boot up? You nee to put the cd-rom drive first, the floppy drive second, and the hard drive last.
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    pottyrot

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    Posted November 1st, 2004 00:00

    I can't boot from an empty hard drive.  My problem is no matter what I do to my BIOS

    it won't boot from CD-ROM, only floppy, hence I can't load my OS onto the hard drive.

    I even filled 6 floppies for my XP but got an error and couldn't continue.

    Any other ideas oh wisest of forums?

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    jbog91

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    Posted November 1st, 2004 01:00

    Oh. I thought your boot order looked like this:

    1.Hard Drive

    2.cd-rom drive

    3.floppy drive

     

    when it should look like this to boot from a cd:

    1.cd-rom drive

    2.floppy drive

    3.hard drive

     

    Sorry, I don't have any other ideas.

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    Majestic

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    Posted November 1st, 2004 12:00

    Pottyrot
     
    If you have more than one CD drive, have you tried booting from both of them?  Also try booting from the Dell Resource CD just to double check that the problem is not related to the XP CD.

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