Hey guys im wanting to set up XP for my dad, set the PC to boot from the CD Rom, but when it says press any key (i press enter) it just bypasses that and instead boots to the Hard disk. Whats wrong here. The CD Rom is detected by the way.
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| Windows XP/2000 - [Resolved] Trouble Setting up XP posted in the Operating Systems forums; Hey guys im wanting to set up XP for my dad, set the PC to boot from the CD Rom, but when it says press any key (i press enter) ... |
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[Resolved] Trouble Setting up XP
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Sounds to me like the CD is not being recognised as having a boot sector - taht or teh drive is not recognising it. Could be the drive would benefit from a firmware update if available.
Here's an option though. If the HDD is bootable into an OS and has enough space then boot up, insert teh XP CD and copy the entire i386 folder to a sub-folder on your HDD somewhere ... better still to a partition that is not or will not be the main boot partition. Then run the setup from within that folder - no CD required. |
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The HDD has no OS on it.
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Try booting up the CD on your computer madgamer...see if the CD actually does boot.
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Ok be back in a min
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The CD does boot in mine
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ok me soooo stupid, i forgot to enable USB Legacy support in the BIOS
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