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

[dylan]

Thanks to everyone who contributed ideas!

the link to the M$ page with bootable floppies did the trick and jumpstarted
the XP install CD!! now my room mate will be happy with winXP for the next
few months until it is time to re-install it again...... yikes.

one of these days he will get tired of windows for good, and we will be
booting his machine with a linux CD.

Dylan 

on 04.5.16 9:47 AM, Jimbo at evesautomotive@charter.net was reported to have
writen:

> 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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