prob w/re-boot on OEM XP

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Steve Fass

Hope you can help. I'm trying to install OEM XP Home on a
new computer. It is a do-it-yourself kit. A plain
vanilla cold install. I get through the format and
partition, files get automatially copied, and it goes to
re-boot. Heres's the problem. If I leave the XP CD in,
it goes right back to partition / format. If I take the
CD out, I get, "disk boot failure-insert system disk-press
enter." In bios, the boot order is cd-rom, C, A. I think
it is supposed to boot from C, and it won't. I wait 15
miutes for it to boot from C, but the error message
stays. Thanks for your help.
 
What are you sorry about? We all were. Read the motherboard manual about
"Boot sector protection" or similar named setting.
 
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