Boot Up from Disk

[Guest]

I can no longer boot from my Windows XP disk. It either fails to recognise
the disk alltogether or it gives me the "Press any key to boot from CD" but
then refuses, saying eith ntldr.dll is missing or just booting from HDD as
usual. Any ideas? Has my CD screwed the pooch??

 

[Michael Stevens]

I can no longer boot from my Windows XP disk. It either fails to
recognise the disk alltogether or it gives me the "Press any key to
boot from CD" but then refuses, saying eith ntldr.dll is missing or
just booting from HDD as usual. Any ideas? Has my CD screwed the
pooch??

Dirty, scratched, cracked, XP CD, or bad, dirty, misconfigured CD drive. The
bios is setting the drive properly and giving the correct instruction to
press any key to boot, but the CD drive or CD is bad. Try booting the CD in
another computer. This will eliminate the CD as the problem, and you can
focus on the hardware as the source of the problem.

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Michael Stevens MS-MVP XP
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[Plato]

Dirty, scratched, cracked, XP CD, or bad, dirty, misconfigured CD drive. The
bios is setting the drive properly and giving the correct instruction to
press any key to boot, but the CD drive or CD is bad. Try booting the CD in
another computer. This will eliminate the CD as the problem, and you can
focus on the hardware as the source of the problem.

Or perhaps that't a reason MS makes setup disk sets available:

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/release.asp?releaseid=33290
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/release.asp?releaseid=42818
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...07-99F7-4A2D-983D-81C2137FF464&displaylang=en

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/release.asp?releaseid=33291
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/release.asp?releaseid=42819
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...8D-5E10-49B5-B80C-0A0205368124&displaylang=en

 

[Rick \Nutcase\ Rogers]

Which is nice, but won't help much if the system can't read the CD (which is
what is indicated in the OP). Then they will just have a minimal version of
the Recovery Console, which is useful in some situations, just not this one.

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP

Associate Expert - WindowsXP Expert Zone

Windows help - www.rickrogers.org

 

[Michael Stevens]

Thanks Rick and Plato for tying up the loose ends I left out.
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[Guest]

I have had no problems booting from this CD previously (although come to
think of it, sometimes the setup would stall due to a missing file but then
work again on he next attempt) and the CD drive reads all other disks no
problem so.......

 

[Plato]

Thanks Rick and Plato for tying up the loose ends I left out.

grin. Copy/Paste is my specialty.

ps it's hard to flame just a link

 

[Plato]

Which is nice, but won't help much if the system can't read the CD (which is
what is indicated in the OP). Then they will just have a minimal version of
the Recovery Console, which is useful in some situations, just not this one.

He said it cant _boot_ from a CD. The OP didnt say he/she was having any
other problems
reading cds. It's common that a pc loses it's ability to boot from a
bootable cd but
can handle cds perfectly fine otherwise.