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 Oct 29 2006, 09:40 AM
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I backed up my data by creating a hard drive partition and moving all my data onto that partion and formating and installing windows xp on the other. The problem comes when I try to boot my windows xp cd. I set my BIOS to boot from the cd, but when I load it, I get an error message saying "no boot emulation" and it just boots windows xp from my hard drive. I searched google and couldnt really find anything. Can anyone help me? Thanks! |
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Oct 29 2006, 02:13 PM
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Trusted Tech  Posts: 2,663 OS: Windows XP |
Sounds like it's a non-genuine XP CD which hasn't been created properly - there's no boot image on it so it's not bootable like a genuine or properly mastered boot CD.
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Oct 29 2006, 02:53 PM
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Member Posts: 467 From: USA OS: OSX Leopard, Windows XP Professional SP3 |
my cd is genuine. I just successfully booted it on my laptop computer.
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