Reinstalling XP on Reformatted Laptop

[Guest]

My husband's company just gave away several surplus Dell Latitude C640
laptops to employees. The hard drives have been reformatted. They came with
a CD to reinstall XP Professional. We have the product code.

I've used setup to change the primary boot drive to the CD/DVD drive. The
CD appears to be bootable (I looked at it on my own Dell desktop at home.)

However the only message on the screen is "No bootable devices."

Suggestions would be appreciated. (BTW, I'm a long time Dell user and have
purchased many new desktop units for myself and family members over the
years.)

 

[Guest]

"Used set up to change boot drive" thiers no such animal..To change boot
order you need to enter the BIOS,set to boot to cdrom or rw.

 

[Michael Stevens]

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"Used set up to change boot drive" thiers no such animal..To change
boot order you need to enter the BIOS,set to boot to cdrom or rw.

Shows how little you know about computers. Dell laptops display a boot order
when F12 is pressed during boot up.

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