Re: audio computer down (somewhat off topc)

Jack Jarmush wrote:
hello good people, this is off topic but ive tried everything almost;
been up 2 nghts going crazy im desperate and tech forums qre not
replying and you guys are the best group i know of on the net and have
helped often so if you can help with this even though its not audio
related (although ultimately it is) it would be very appreciated.
I reformatted my HDD to renstall windows xp but now it wont boot from
the cd rom, i set bios to boot from cd rom but it does not and i just
get a messeage to "press a key to reboot" then the loop starts again,
bios reckognizes the HDD and is in primary master ide, cd rom is
secondary master, i tried unplugging and replugging the ide cables,
tried to boot from xp disk in a vista machine but the "intall windows
xp" option is greyed out so i cant verify if the cd is good or not, it
is readable i can explore the contents, any advise what to try next?
-rob
Are you using a genuine (?) Bootable XP disk??

Try booting off a 'Live CD' of Linux - e.g. Ubuntu; this will prove that the CD/DVD drive is working OK.

It sounds like the XP CD is not bootable OR the CD/DVD drive is broken or not plugged correctly..

Guy
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