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Hi,


I've got Dell inspiron 6000 and was wondering if anyone know how I can boot a CD from restart? Also this laptop came with XP Home and was wondering if a XP Home product key starts with 2 letters? e.g. BH-XXXXXX-XXXXX-XXX-XXXX this was under the barcode and I'm not sure if that is a XP Home product key because it doesn't say anything


Thanks in advance
- Henry

Hey Henry!

Unfortunately, that's not a XP Home product key. Those are 5 blocks of 5 letters or numbers like: XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX.

To boot from CD, you got to enter your BIOS at start up, and make you CD/DVD drive the first boot device.

You can enter the BIOS tapping F2 or Delete on start-up.

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That's just weird... giving me a xp home cd but no key? Is there a way I can find my current one installed on my laptop and format my latop then reuse it?

Yes there is, for example Belarc Advisor provides you the key that is entered.
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