Boot from XP

[prabhatmohit]

Hi! Can any1 plz. tell me how can I boot form my XP Pro CD?
Thx!

 

[QwertyManiac]

Simple indeed, put the Disk inti\o the tray and restart ur comp and go to the BIOS, in this go to bood configuration and make ur cd drive the 1st boot priority...
Now save and resart or continue...
U will boot...

Else, if not bios, then keep hittin f10 until u get (on sys start ) a menu for boot device..,choose Cdrom...Drive...

Shud be in Q&A

 

[expertno.1]

thats finished what QM said

Just use the bios dude

 

[hack expert]

QM`s rite go ahead

 

[QwertyManiac]

Have u tried it ny way ?
Tis too siple , i say seein ur tech blog...

@expertno1 - I cant PM plz Help ......

 

[cyrux]

I have known this prob for a while...some times XP pro fails to boot the system so when ever this happens try booting up with a win98 cd will work...

 

[siriusb]

The only time a xp installation cd fails to boot is when it is not made into a bootable cd or the boot order is not appropriate.

 

[prabhatmohit]

OK GUys. I now this stuff but the PC isn't booting form the CD!

 

[swatkat]

What is your PC configuration? Some older BIOSes doesnt support booting from CD drives which are in Secondary IDE channel. If your CD Drive is in Secondary, change it to Primary and then check with the XP CD.
Also, check whether the 1st Boot Device is set to CD ROM in BIOS.
And, also check whether the CD is bootable or not.

 

[Vishal Gupta]

U can check with other bootable CD like Win 98 CD.
So that we can know whether its problem with CD or system?

 

[cyrux]

if everything fails ...load the BIOS defaults and try booting again

 

[royal]

Check whether the CD is bootable by trying in some other pc

 

[infra_red_dude]

yes check all those things first and also this very li'l thingy! it may seem unimportant but if u put win2k/xp cd then the boot loader asks you to "press any key to boot from cd"...you need to hit any key to boot from the CD!!!