Boot hard drive from the CD?

[Wally S]

There is a way you can get into the basic computer settings after you turn
on the computer and before Windows starts. It varies from computer to
computer. Usually you press one of the function keys before Windows gets a
chance to start. Once you get into the settings, you can change the order in
which the computer looks for the system, and you can tell it to look first
on the CD. If you are not familiar with this kind of thing, I would suggest
you get some help, as you can mess things up by playing with these settings.

Wally

 

[Tumbleweed]

I have got XP installed on my hard drive.

Theoretically, is it possible to boot my PC to start with the XP CD
and then to select some option on the CD to boot XP on my hard
drive?

Yes..ish, that is you can certainly boot from CD, and you can also do repair
installations that would fix some XP problems on disk, and boot from there.
What are you trying to accomplish?

 

[Rachel M]

I have got XP installed on my hard drive.

Theoretically, is it possible to boot my PC to start with the XP CD
and then to select some option on the CD to boot XP on my hard
drive?

 

[Alan]

Trying to mess up her computer??? :>

Alan

 

[Andrew Murray]

It should already be booting from the hard drive......

 

[Andrew Murray]

yes, you can go to the BIOS and change the order of your boot up devices (i.e.
the floppy drive, Hard Drive, CD or in some cases a ZIP drive.

If you need to use the CD drive to boot, change the order to 1) CD-ROM 2) FLOPPY
3) HDD. or similar.

then it will search each in order until it finds a disk with system-bootable
files.

put the xp cd in the drive and restart and it will boot and launch the utilities
on the disk.

 

[Rachel M]

Yes..ish, that is you can certainly boot from CD, and you can
also do repair installations that would fix some XP problems
on disk, and boot from there. What are you trying to
accomplish?

I don't think I made my question clear.

I want to know if I can boot to my XP CD (of course the PC has to
look at the CD drive first) and then for the XP CD to allow me to
boot my XP which is installed on the hard drive?

 

[JBM]

I don't think I made my question clear.

I want to know if I can boot to my XP CD (of course the PC has to
look at the CD drive first) and then for the XP CD to allow me to
boot my XP which is installed on the hard drive?

Just curious, why do you want to do this?

 

[Darrell]

Sure. Change your BIOS to boot first from the CD. Put in your XP CD and
boot. It will boot from the CD. Then to boot from your hard drive take
the XP CD out and reboot.

 

[SlAyEr]

||| Theoretically, is it possible to boot my PC to start with the XP CD
||| and then to select some option on the CD to boot XP on my hard
||| drive?

yr right this isnt a clear question......

you want to boot from an xp cd then from whateva that gives you ,, you want
to use that to boot from yr installtion of xp allready on yr hard drive?

id like to buy a mountain and drill into it to see if the rock is dense or
soft like furry butter......

assuming i find a river running under the said mountain will it be wet water
or the wrong type of water?

and will there be any fish living in said water?

do you swallow too?

regards a bemused slayer





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[Mike]

The XP cd will attempt to reload XP onto your system.. there is no facility
to boot from the HD other than to cancel cd operation and let the pc boot
from the HD.. quite why you would want to extend bootup time by going
through the cd is anybody's guess.. most want their computer to boot
faster..