If I need to boot to my CD "Emergency" disk . .

[Tony Meloche]

Should the day ever come when I must do that, ("Be Prepared", etc.) the
commonly seen comment on these groups is to "Go into the BIOS and change
to your CD drive to boot". OK, fine. But (and this goes back to the
Windows 95 days) could I also do that by merely booting to the "C"
prompt with F8, and then switch to my CD drive and run the executable
from the CD disk that way?

Tony

 

[Xandros]

Using F8 will get you to the bootmenu from which you can select "Safe mode
with command prompt". From there you will eventually boot to a command
window. You can change drives at the prompt (as you did in the old days) to
your CD-Rom drive letter and with the Windows XP CD in the drive you can run
setup.exe. This will present you with the same GUI that you'd see if you
were running the install from within Windows - like running an upgrade from
the Desktop. However if you can't boot to "SafeMode with command prompt"
then you won't be able to do this. For example of you have a damaged Master
Boot Record then you won't be able to boot to the boot menu by tapping F8.

 

[Tony Meloche]

Using F8 will get you to the bootmenu from which you can select "Safe mode
with command prompt". From there you will eventually boot to a command
window. You can change drives at the prompt (as you did in the old days) to
your CD-Rom drive letter and with the Windows XP CD in the drive you can run
setup.exe. This will present you with the same GUI that you'd see if you
were running the install from within Windows - like running an upgrade from
the Desktop. However if you can't boot to "SafeMode with command prompt"
then you won't be able to do this. For example of you have a damaged Master
Boot Record then you won't be able to boot to the boot menu by tapping F8.

Thanks.

Tony

 

[Xandros]

Thanks.

Tony

You're welcome