Hello. I am pretty familiar with computers and hardware though no genius by any means. I am trying to wipe my gateway win-xp home completly clean and reinstall win-xp pro. I have the cd, prod. key and all the drivers and sp 2 cd's I need. I started following the guide for reformatting but I am having some issues. I can't boot from cd-rom. I have set my bios to boot from cd and it tries, but then skips it and loads normally. I am on a laptop and have no floppy drive. So I can't make a floppy boot. The win-xp cd works just fine, it loads in normal screen, just won't boot from cd. PLease help!!!!
Starbelly 0 Newbie Poster
goldeagle2005 33 Finkus Stinkalotus Team Colleague
Is this CD which you're trying to use bootable ? That is to say if it's a copy, did you make a direct disk to disk copy or did you drag the files to it?
Starbelly 0 Newbie Poster
Honestly im not sure, I got it from a friend :)
goldeagle2005 33 Finkus Stinkalotus Team Colleague
Well, see if the disk works on another computer. if it doesn't we know for sure that the CD is the culprit here.
'Stein 150 Lapsed Skeptic Team Colleague
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