computer booting off of XP cd instead of hard drive

[Kelly]

I tried changing c-mos and start-up preferences and that forces you to boot
off of the CD and re-install windows XP. How can you get XP to boot off of
the hard drive instead of the CD? Thanks.

 

[pcbutts1]

Take out the cd.

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"Kelly" <Kelly@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
newsEE4C1AF-772C-41B0-94E2-97ED2EFD247F@microsoft.com...
>I tried changing c-mos and start-up preferences and that forces you to boot
> off of the CD and re-install windows XP. How can you get XP to boot off
> of
> the hard drive instead of the CD? Thanks.

 

[VanguardLH]

"Kelly" wrote in message
newsEE4C1AF-772C-41B0-94E2-97ED2EFD247F@microsoft.com...
> I tried changing c-mos and start-up preferences and that forces you
> to boot
> off of the CD and re-install windows XP. How can you get XP to boot
> off of
> the hard drive instead of the CD? Thanks.


Take the install CD out of the CD/DVD drive.

 

[David B.]

Or don't press any key when it says "press any key to boot from CD"

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"pcbutts1" <pcbutts1@leythosthestalker.com> wrote in message
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>
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> Orwell
>
>
>
> "Kelly" <Kelly@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> newsEE4C1AF-772C-41B0-94E2-97ED2EFD247F@microsoft.com...
>>I tried changing c-mos and start-up preferences and that forces you to
>>boot
>> off of the CD and re-install windows XP. How can you get XP to boot off
>> of
>> the hard drive instead of the CD? Thanks.
>
>

 

[Kelly]

Thanks for the help, but it didn't work. I took the CD out and re-booted. I
received this error:

Boot from CD:
DISK BOOT FAILURE, INSERT SYSTEM DISK AND PRESS ENTER

The computer would not boot back up without putting the CD in. Now What?

Thank you,

"VanguardLH" wrote:

> "Kelly" wrote in message
> newsEE4C1AF-772C-41B0-94E2-97ED2EFD247F@microsoft.com...
> > I tried changing c-mos and start-up preferences and that forces you
> > to boot
> > off of the CD and re-install windows XP. How can you get XP to boot
> > off of
> > the hard drive instead of the CD? Thanks.
>
>
> Take the install CD out of the CD/DVD drive.
>
>

 

[Andy]

If you're saying that the computer boots Windows XP from the hard
drive only when the XP CD is in the optical drive, that means that the
bios setting for hard disk boot priority is incorrect.

On Wed, 2 Jan 2008 13:22:06 -0800, Kelly
<Kelly@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

>Thanks for the help, but it didn't work. I took the CD out and re-booted. I
>received this error:
>
>Boot from CD:
>DISK BOOT FAILURE, INSERT SYSTEM DISK AND PRESS ENTER
>
>The computer would not boot back up without putting the CD in. Now What?
>
>Thank you,
>
>"VanguardLH" wrote:
>
>> "Kelly" wrote in message
>> newsEE4C1AF-772C-41B0-94E2-97ED2EFD247F@microsoft.com...
>> > I tried changing c-mos and start-up preferences and that forces you
>> > to boot
>> > off of the CD and re-install windows XP. How can you get XP to boot
>> > off of
>> > the hard drive instead of the CD? Thanks.
>>
>>
>> Take the install CD out of the CD/DVD drive.
>>
>>

 

[Kelly]

Andy, Thank you, we finally figured that out. We have the problem fixed now.
Thanks for the help.

"Andy" wrote:

> If you're saying that the computer boots Windows XP from the hard
> drive only when the XP CD is in the optical drive, that means that the
> bios setting for hard disk boot priority is incorrect.
>
> On Wed, 2 Jan 2008 13:22:06 -0800, Kelly
> <Kelly@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
>
> >Thanks for the help, but it didn't work. I took the CD out and re-booted. I
> >received this error:
> >
> >Boot from CD:
> >DISK BOOT FAILURE, INSERT SYSTEM DISK AND PRESS ENTER
> >
> >The computer would not boot back up without putting the CD in. Now What?
> >
> >Thank you,
> >
> >"VanguardLH" wrote:
> >
> >> "Kelly" wrote in message
> >> newsEE4C1AF-772C-41B0-94E2-97ED2EFD247F@microsoft.com...
> >> > I tried changing c-mos and start-up preferences and that forces you
> >> > to boot
> >> > off of the CD and re-install windows XP. How can you get XP to boot
> >> > off of
> >> > the hard drive instead of the CD? Thanks.
> >>
> >>
> >> Take the install CD out of the CD/DVD drive.
> >>
> >>
>