Thanks for all your help. What eventually worked was I remove the case and
unplugged the TDK RW (the master drive) which left the Memorex CD and then I
was able to get the "Press any key to boot from a CD". Did a repair install
with my new software and everything went great.
"Badger" wrote:
> Skip Bisconer wrote:
> > I am trying to get rid of an installed XP Pro bootleg software and
> > reinstalling a new copy of Windows XP Pro. I cannot seem to get my computer
> > to boot from one of my CDs. The bios has ATPI CD as the primare boot witht
> > he hard drive secondary and the 3.5 drive as third. My TDK RW drive is master
> > and I have a Memorex as a slave. Is there another way to accomplish what I
> > need to do?
> Hi Skip
> Check out Smart Boot Manager
> It will boot from a floppy and allow you to chose a CDRom to boot to
> among other things.(good for old bio's that don't have the boot to cd
> option)
> http://btmgr.webframe.org/
> Also you might run a disk cleaner on the cdrom drive
>
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