I was trying to format the hard drive and reinstall Windows XP. My Dell would not read the CD ROM so I replaced it with a new one. I used my current Windows XP to install it and it is working fine. The problem is that when I try to boot from the CD, the computer bypasses it and goes straight to the old Windows. I entered "setup" by using the DEL key when I booted, and I checked to see if the CD ROM was #1 on the list--and it is. So why won't my computer boot from the CD ROM? It always used to work before the old CD ROM was broken. But for some reason it won't boot from the hard drive with the new one, even though Windows XP "found" it and says it is peroperly installed. When I go into the BIOS (aka "setup") after pressing the delete key at start-up, it says "ATAPI CD ROM." This is always waht it used to say, so I don't know what I should do...please help.
2007-10-08 07:56:50 · 4 answers · asked by A. J. 1 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Other - Hardware
well i know on my computer even though i have it set for to boot from the rom first, it wants me to press a key to do that. that and with my monitor refreshing slow it is normally past that point when my screen comes up. if i have to boot from my rom i normally just keep tapping the space bar until its going.
2007-10-08 08:07:33 · answer #1 · answered by jedidiaha 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You should be getting a "hit any key to boot from CD" prompt upon startup. If you dont hit a key it will boot from hard drive. If youre not getting that prompt your bios is not taking your change to boot off CD. Perhaps you just dont see the prompt and you can hit a key anyway at the right time and boot off the CD.
Make sure that, when you set it in bios to boot from CD that you "exit saving changes" If you cant get it to work try resetting your cmos with the F5 jumper on the motherboard then boot up into bios and again change it to boot from CD.
Even without a CD in the drive you should still get a prompt to boot off CD if your bios is set to that option. If nothing works and you have an old floppy boot disk you can try booting off it and doing the old setup.exe after going to your CD drive in DOS.
2007-10-08 08:09:00 · answer #2 · answered by s j 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It sounds like you might have a bad Windows CD. It appears that it has read the CD at startup and found no boot information on it (to re-install Windows).
The only thing I can recommend is to get another copy of Windows.
2007-10-08 08:02:14 · answer #3 · answered by Yuchniuk Website Design 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2016-10-21 11:42:23 · answer #4 · answered by dyett 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋