Problem with startup

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Hi,

I'm at my wit's end with this one! On startup a couple of days ago, that
familiar screen with five startup options (safe mode, last known good etc.)
appeared. None of them worked. I've tried to follow the advice available here
(recovery console etc.), but I have a problem. No matter what type of CD I
try to boot from (I've used XP Pro, Home and 98 SE) none of them work. The
XP's give the error "non-emulation booting" and the 98 one says there's an
error with the disc.

At first I thought there might be problems with all of the discs (I've read
the non-emulation booting usuaully means a problem with the registry key?
perhaps because of a copy/image?), but I've tried the XP ones on my other
laptop and they work fine.

I need help! Ideally, I would like to try and recover a few files and then
run a clean install of XP Pro, but if this is out of the question does anyone
have any suggestions of how I could get the setup program to start? If I can
get onto a command prompt and type D:\setup.exe, this would work, right?

Oh and to make matters all the more interesting, the laptop in question does
not have a floppy disc drive installed.

Fun Fun Fun!

Please help!
 
That would be very useful (I've bookmarked the site for future reference) but
my problem is not how to run an install, but the actual running of an
install: I CANNOT BOOT DIRECTLY FROM MY XP SETUP DISCS!
 
Did you open your BIOS and set the CD drive as the 1st bootable device?

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| That would be very useful (I've bookmarked the site for future reference) but
| my problem is not how to run an install, but the actual running of an
| install: I CANNOT BOOT DIRECTLY FROM MY XP SETUP DISCS!
 
Yes. When the CD is loaded, I receive the message "Non-Emulation Booting" and
then nothing happens.
 
Yes. When the CD is loaded, I receive the message "Non-Emulation Booting" and
then nothing happens.
 
Might this be a copy CD of the XP OS? Or a pirate copy? To get this error "Non-Emulation Booting" it comes from a CD that is not the original

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I'll admit the original installation of Home is an image, but the XP Pro disc
is not a copy, nor is the 98 SE. And like I said, they both work on my other
laptop - an HP Omnibook.
 
You just answered the question to your issue. "The original installation of XP Home is an image"
 
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