System won't boot from CD

[Charlie & Sue Fernandez]

My XP-Home wouldn't start up so I tried booted from the CD. It did and I ran
an install repair that worked. I ran system scandisk to be sure and it never
restarted. Now it won't boot from that same CD. I can get to the BIOS
settings and do get to the Windows Advanced Options Menu but the screen goes
black on anything I select and stays that way.

Good thing I have my Mac or I wouldn't be able to get this out.

CF

[Michael Solomon \(MS-MVP Windows Shell/User\)]

Did you remember to hit any key when prompted in order to boot from the CD?

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"Charlie & Sue Fernandez" > wrote in message
.. .
> My XP-Home wouldn't start up so I tried booted from the CD. It did and I
ran
> an install repair that worked. I ran system scandisk to be sure and it
never
> restarted. Now it won't boot from that same CD. I can get to the BIOS
> settings and do get to the Windows Advanced Options Menu but the screen
goes
> black on anything I select and stays that way.
>
> Good thing I have my Mac or I wouldn't be able to get this out.
>
> CF
>

[Rob Schneider]

Charlie & Sue Fernandez wrote:

> My XP-Home wouldn't start up so I tried booted from the CD. It did and I
> ran an install repair that worked. I ran system scandisk to be sure and
> it never restarted. Now it won't boot from that same CD. I can get to
> the BIOS settings and do get to the Windows Advanced Options Menu but
> the screen goes black on anything I select and stays that way.
>
> Good thing I have my Mac or I wouldn't be able to get this out.
>
> CF

I'm not sure what the "Windows ADvanced Options Menu" is in BIOS as my
BIOS menus don't have such a thing.

Are you sure your BIOS is set to enable booting from the CD? Maybe
check that again.

Sounds like a hardware problem is the root cause (which caused you to do
a reinstall in the first place) that probably is unrelated to XP?

(reinstalls are should be something to do as a last resort after knowing
exactly the purpose of doing it ... although I'll grant you that a lot
of people reinstall to attempt to fix problems, and support help-lines
often suggest it as a way to get the caller off the phone).