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Windows XP CD wont boot

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trooper is j:
There is a program called DBAN i suggest you use it. when you first start the computer, you need to go into the bios, then select your drive you want to boot from.  do that, choose your cd/dvd drive to boot from, make sure you have the disk in the cd tray.  once you get dban booted, follow the instructions and it will wipe your hard drive. you can then re install windows.

Shippo:
I would first try the disk in another machine just to make sure that it is good.  If it is, I would check your Bios settings to boot off the cd.  If that checks out, try a different cdrom drive.  If that doesn't work, try a different ide port on the motherboard.  Anything after that, I have no idea but I would suspect that the mobo is dead.  I doubt you will go that far.

bubble:
check to see if your motherboard detects the hard drive, cd drive and whatever else you got
if not then you probably have a dead drive (cd, hdd or whatever)

Rev. Jim Jones:
Did you go into the BIOS and put boot from CD as first?

Glox:
Updates:
I did go into Bios and put cd first. I also tried disabling floppy and hd.

The computer boots into XP just fine. Everything works but its missing files/has pop ups/etc so I want to just nuke the drive.

The CD rom works. The disk runs when already loaded in windows.



When I go to boot off it though, it doesn't take. f1 to retry, f2 for setup.

Ive never seen anything like this before =/

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