ReadTheHelpFile
December 6th 03, 10:29 PM
When you get the message to boot to the cdrom drive press
the enter key but you gotta be kinda quick on the draw.
>-----Original Message-----
>Steven,
>
>Further to my posting about this, here is an update:
>
>I changed the boot priority in BIOS last night to CD ROM
first and then
>booted up. It came up boot from CD but didn't give an
option to reply yes
>or no. After about 5 seconds the option for boot safe
mode, Last Known Good
>etc came up and no matter which one I select it briefly
Blue Screens and
>reboots. The CD does spin up as well when it comes up
with boot from CD ROM
>option. I swapped the jumpers on my CD and HDD to make
the CD master and
>HDD slave, but this didn't make a difference. I even
tried booting from the
>XP Pro Boot Disk but this wouldn't work either.
>
>Have I got to format my HDD for this?
>
>
>.
>
the enter key but you gotta be kinda quick on the draw.
>-----Original Message-----
>Steven,
>
>Further to my posting about this, here is an update:
>
>I changed the boot priority in BIOS last night to CD ROM
first and then
>booted up. It came up boot from CD but didn't give an
option to reply yes
>or no. After about 5 seconds the option for boot safe
mode, Last Known Good
>etc came up and no matter which one I select it briefly
Blue Screens and
>reboots. The CD does spin up as well when it comes up
with boot from CD ROM
>option. I swapped the jumpers on my CD and HDD to make
the CD master and
>HDD slave, but this didn't make a difference. I even
tried booting from the
>XP Pro Boot Disk but this wouldn't work either.
>
>Have I got to format my HDD for this?
>
>
>.
>