Darren
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Hi, when i turn on my pc it used to try and boot of the cdrom, then floppy then hard drive, but now it misses out the cdrom. Ive checked through all the bios stuff and that is still ok. If i load windows up the cd drive works fine so it must be all installed ok.
any ideas on how to get it to boot from the cd?? 
cheers 
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mjw_2k2
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win 98 setup boot disk m8
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mjw_2k2
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boot from floppy to install win 98 and at the menu choose boot with cdrom support
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Gareth.O
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you need to change the boot order in BIOS. when you reboot, there's normally an option like 'hit delete to enter setup'
do that - then normally in advanced setup, you should see something like 'boot device 1, boot device 2, boot device 3' listed
Just make sure floppy is device 1, cd is device 2, and ide0 or whatever is listed currently is device 3.
Hope that helps
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Darren
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gareth, thanx but i have already done that but its still not working...
myw, ive formated my hard drive and i wanna install xp so how am i gonna go about it??
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John
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Theres 5 xp boot floppys u can dl but thats a pain in the arse.
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Tim
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The CD you are trying to boot from... you sure it's a bootable CD?
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Darren
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yep definatly. i tried a windows 98 cd that ive used countless times and it doesnt work..
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mjw_2k2
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make sure in bios you are booting from floppy first k, then restart, insert disk and when it searchs the A: the win 98 setup should come up and you get 3 choices, choose i think the second one which is boot pc with cdrom support, then it will install drivers for your cd rom and after that you should be able to boot from D: (might be E insert win 98 cd into drive and type D:setup.exe and install windows 98, when u got win 98 done use the win XP cd to upgrade is that ok?
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Gareth.O
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how many cd drives you got in your computer? I've sometimes seen cases where the computer will look in 1 cd drive for bootable media, but not the other drive.
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mjw_2k2
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if u boot from cd first make sure ur win98 disk is in and you will get a differant setup screen with 2 choices - make sure you choose option 2 which would be boot from cd
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mjw_2k2
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Q- is ur win98 disc copied or proper version? some copys dont boot up
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Darren
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proper version and its worked fine untill now!!
if ive formated my hard drive how am i suposed to install xp??
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mjw_2k2
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gotta reinstall win 98 then upgrade 2 xp
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mjw_2k2
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the xp i sent ya is only a upgrade
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mjw_2k2
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try in dos FDISK and make a partition C: which uses 100% drive space and enable it (make active)
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mjw_2k2
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run fdisk then boot up install win98 upgrade to xp, simple
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Darren
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ok cheers mate, ill try that when i get home
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Craig6682
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If everything is OK in the BIOS then try another CD Drive. Sounds like it's the BIOS to me though
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John
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Xp won't install if u boot into dos using the win98 startup disk.
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mjw_2k2
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it doesnt really matter bout the bios boot up settings cos u can boot 2 cd from floppy
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mjw_2k2
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just focus on installin win 98 first k forget bout xp til u got 98 on
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mjw_2k2
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after u got win98 then u upgrade that to xp k u2u if u get any problems
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