[vox-tech] [OT] windows XP CD won't boot

Jimbo vox-tech@lists.lugod.org
Sun, 16 May 2004 09:47:10 -0700


I will even go 1 step further.  I have another xp cd rom that I can bring
over and see if it will boot up.

Call me if you want to try this approach.

Jimbo (aka Jim)
(916)375-0707

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "dylan" <dylan@iici.no-ip.org>
To: <vox-tech@lists.lugod.org>
Sent: Friday, May 14, 2004 9:51 PM
Subject: [vox-tech] [OT] windows XP CD won't boot


> hi everyone,
>
> my room mate has a nasty PC that had XP installed on it... he wanted to
> format his HD and then re-install XP from the CD... however the XP
installer
> would not let him format his C drive before the install... so he formatted
> the C drive with another boot disk, and not the winXP install cd wont even
> boot....
>
> does anyone have any ideas on how to make the CD boot, and install his OS?
>
> thanks in advance!
>
> Dylan
>
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