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Disk boot faliure Help please

Started by Shakur , Aug 11 2005 06:49 AM

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Shakur

Posted 11 August 2005 - 06:49 AM

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hello
i really need some help. my nod32 curropted my xp when deletling viurses. the operating system doesnt function properly anymore. it always reboot when its loading the boot screensaver. so i have deicded to install a fresh copy of windows xp but here the problem comes when i disable the "boot from hd" so that it boots from cd i get this error "disk boot faliure press entre" could some1 tell me what is causing this becuase i never faced such a problem while go.
oh yeah i also got the boot diskette ( works fine when i boot from it )but dunno how to use it

thanks for your help

Edited by Shakur, 11 August 2005 - 06:55 AM.

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pip22

Posted 12 August 2005 - 01:09 AM

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If you are sure the BIOS is set to boot from the CD-ROM drive first, it's possibe you are failing to act on the "PRESS ANY KEY TO BOOT FROM CD" message which the XP CD generates. If you fail to press any key when this message appears, the system will attempt to boot from the next drive listed in the BIOS.