Hi again,
What does a bootable CD mean? Does it mean that the CD drive must fulfil
some requirements besides the compact disk also must be bootable? I have
installed a very new CD drive into the machine. Aren't all new CD drives
bootable? Are there any requirements on the motherboard or other parts of
the system for the machine to be bootable from the CD?
Regards
M Shafaat
2003-06-24
"Steve" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> In article <bELJa.17237$(E-Mail Removed)>, (E-Mail Removed)
> says...
> > Hi all,
> > I have a new PC which can be started up with Win XP installation CD
before
> > any operating program, any CD drivers or other programs are installed.
> >
> >
> > I want to know how I can make my older PC to do the same. My older
machine,
> > purchased in Sep 1999, is a Pentium 3 450 MHz which I want to rebuild or
> > reconfigure to be able to install an operating system on it without a
lot of
> > trouble with installing DOS and then Win 3.1 and then Win 98, . When I
> > bought this PC, I also purchased Win 98 SE, together with which I also
got a
> > special CD for starting the machine before any operating program was
> > installed. But I have never succeeded to manage that, so the starting CD
> > have been unused until now.
> >
> >
> > Any idea about how to get there?
> > Regards,
> > M Shafaat
> > 2003-06-24
> >
> >
> >
> >
> Your BIOS should be set to boot from cd first, providing said cd is
> bootable...failing that, why not just create a startup/bootdisk and boot
> from the floppy and install from there?
>
> see www.bootdisk.com for more....
> --
> regards,
> Steve
> "The greatest of all faults is to be conscious of none"
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