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My computer doesn't seem to want to boot to a CD (Any CD including my XP home upgrade disk and my original Gateway ME recovery disk). If I experience a disaster with my hard disk, is there a way to use the floppy drive to then install XP from either just the XP disk or from both of those disks? The CD plays disks just fine; it just doesn't boot from them.
 
Have you checked to ensure that the system BIOS is set so
the 'first' boot device is CD-ROM?
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My computer doesn't seem to want to boot to a CD (Any CD
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including my XP home upgrade disk and my original Gateway
ME recovery disk). If I experience a disaster with my
hard disk, is there a way to use the floppy drive to then
install XP from either just the XP disk or from both of
those disks? The CD plays disks just fine; it just
doesn't boot from them.
 
"Eric Randall" <(Shorten to singles
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My computer doesn't seem to want to boot to a CD (Any CD including my XP
Click to expand...
home upgrade disk and my original Gateway ME recovery disk). If I
experience a disaster with my hard disk, is there a way to use the floppy
drive to then install XP from either just the XP disk or from both of those
disks? The CD plays disks just fine; it just doesn't boot from them.

Windows XP Setup boot disks are available only by download from Microsoft.
The Setup boot disks are available so that you can run Setup on computers
that do not support a bootable CD-ROM.


http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;[LN];Q310994

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