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14-Aug-2007, 04:08 PM #1
Is my CD rom broken?
I got my vista XP install CD and changed my bios first boot setting to CD ROM but whenever I put my XP DISC in and then the screen comes with 'press any key to boot from cd' I press H or something and it does nothing, I recently got a blank disc and put ubuntu on it and tried this and got the same result, I can install games and play them fine but this is the only problem I have. Thanks.
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14-Aug-2007, 09:32 PM #2
You've mixed three operating systems in one post. There's Windows XP, Windows Vista, and Ubuntu. What are you trying to install?
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14-Aug-2007, 11:29 PM #3
I'm really trying to install XP, I got advice to see if it's just the disc and try something else bootable, so I tried Ubuntu to see if I could boot it. No avail.
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15-Aug-2007, 02:56 PM #4
What exactly happens when you try to boot from the Windows XP installation disk?
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