Booting UP

[Guest]

Hello, I have brought a copy of xp home edition for my new hard drive. It
download ok. The problem I'm having, is that everytime I start up my computer
I have to insert the windows cd to boot up. Can you help me with this problem?

 

[Guest]

How exactly is it requiring you to insert your CD? And, after you instert
the CD to boot, does it finish and completely let you log into your desktop
and do work without any hinderence?

 

[philo]

Hello, I have brought a copy of xp home edition for my new hard drive. It
download ok. The problem I'm having, is that everytime I start up my
computer
I have to insert the windows cd to boot up. Can you help me with this
problem?

change the boot order in your bios to boot first from your harddrive...
or at least be sure booting from the harddrive is one of the options

 

[Abraxas]

Hello, I have brought a copy of xp home edition for my new hard drive.
It
download ok. The problem I'm having, is that everytime I start up my
computer
I have to insert the windows cd to boot up. Can you help me with this
problem?

Try booting from one of the media below. They contain a generic
boot.ini that defaults to the first partition of the first drive and
the "Windows" folder. But there are options for any of 3 partitions on
the first 2 hard drives and "Winnt" folders if that is where your
system is installed.

Download XP Sysboot media here:
'Bootable Sysboot Floppy'
(http://users.adelphia.net/~abraxas/dl/XPsysboot.exe)
'Bootable Sysboot CD Image'
(http://users.adelphia.net/~abraxas/dl/XPsysboot.iso)

If you do not have a burner that will burn ISO images, or if you don't
know how, then use this 'Standalone CD/DVD/ISO Burner'
(http://users.adelphia.net/~abraxas/dl/Micro.zip) to create a bootable
CD from the image above.

If that is successful, then you are missing ntldr, ntdetect.com, or
boot.ini is corrupt. The MBR could also be the problem, but if you
installed into the same partition, that is not likely.

 

[Abraxas]

Hello, I have brought a copy of xp home edition for my new hard drive.
It
download ok. The problem I'm having, is that everytime I start up my
computer
I have to insert the windows cd to boot up. Can you help me with this
problem?

Try booting from one of the media below. They contain a generic
boot.ini that defaults to the first partition of the first drive and
the "Windows" folder. But there are options for any of 3 partitions on
the first 2 hard drives and "Winnt" folders if that is where your
system is installed.

Download XP Sysboot media here:
'Bootable Sysboot Floppy'
(http://users.adelphia.net/~abraxas/dl/XPsysboot.exe)
'Bootable Sysboot CD Image'
(http://users.adelphia.net/~abraxas/dl/XPsysboot.iso)

If you do not have a burner that will burn ISO images, or if you don't
know how, then use this 'Standalone CD/DVD/ISO Burner'
(http://users.adelphia.net/~abraxas/dl/Micro.zip) to create a bootable
CD from the image above.

If that is successful, then you are missing ntldr, ntdetect.com, or
boot.ini is corrupt. The MBR could also be the problem, but if you
installed into the same partition, that is not likely.

What message do you receive if you do not use the CD?

 

[Robbie]

That happened to me and it ended up being a BIOS setting. I had the BIOS set
to boot from hard drive first, but there was another setting to tell the
BIOS WHICH hard drive to boot from. So if you have more than 1 hard
drive...check that out.