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V: I am currently in the midst of trying to get my system back to work (after accidentally format the wrong drive – yes, I feel like a fool) and my mother together a new PC (Abit Nf7-s ) and, and I am a bit of a bind.
Ive always installed Windows from a floppy, I think, but there I could not find my old 95 boot disk with fdisk, format et al on it, I thought Id do a boot / setup from cdrom. Me change the boot order in BIOS to CD first, and un-overclocked (!) My Epox 8rda + s XP2500.
Windows (XP Pro) seems to enjoy starting from the CD off to a fresh install, we . until initialization, and tells you to restart. She does this, and my understanding was that he was the CD in the drive to recognize and move on. What does mine, after a restart, it boots from the CD again, and tells me that the installation is my system, beginning so the whole process again. Rather disgusting.
Ive tried to enter because the CMOS to restart and change the boot order . vain . is pulled out and formatting the drive in another machine tries between, but . bla bla bla
am I missing something obvious here?
this happened to win two separate CDs.
oh, I found a site mybootdisks.com, and tried a set of boot disks for WinXP to make, but I have an I / O error when attempting to use them.
any help is greatly appreciated.
cheers.
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Re:Let it boot from the cd ONE time… The first time it asks you say ok and let it boot… When the computer restarts it will see the cd again and ask if you want to boot from it… Just let it pass… Make sure the hard drive is set as the second boot drive. Just boot off of the cd ONCE then never boot from it again, but leave it in the drive….
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Re:When windows does its first reboot and you go into the bios, what do you set the boot order to.
It needs to be set to drive C:
This works for me every time. Let us know how you get on.
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Re:I've used a burnt back up to install to my computer and it always
says something like "press any key to boot from cd".
Mine never has automatically booted to the cdrom unless I pressed
a key first.
I wonder if you might try another cdrom drive and see if it
fixes your problem?
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Re:But wait a minute….why would that matter if it was a burnt copy…aren't we as consumers allowed to make copies for our own personal backup??
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Re:Hmmm……mine was a burnt copy too……
But…I think I tried it with the original too, and I had a hard time…somehow it eventuall worked…
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Re:Originally posted by: guy
Well, when I did it way back, it never asked me to press any key to boot, and I didn't press any key. Just jumped into the loop.
ditto 
I'm guessing that the strange behavior may be due to it being a burnt copy
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Re:Well, when I did it way back, it never asked me to press any key to boot, and I didn't press any key. Just jumped into the loop.
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Re:>after rebooting, it boots from the CD again, and tells me…
Doesn't it say "Press any key to boot from CD"? So don't press any key. If you don't press a key, it boots off the HD where it continues the installation. That's the way it supposed to go.
They did it that way so you don't have to pull the CD out when the installation reboots.
IAC, that's the way it worked when I tried it just now.
Of course if you boot the CD again, it will start all over again, but I think after a certain point, it will detect that the installation has been partially done, and ask you if you want to resume .
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Re:I had the same exact problem a while ago with an XP Home disk, and I felt like an idiot. For some reason when I use any other windows xp disk it recognized where it was after boot, and continued the install.
I'm also clueless as to why this happened…
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