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April 27th, 2006, 05:35 PM
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OK, when i turn on my PC it will say F11 to boot, or F2 to go to BIOS...I put my windows CD in and it goes to a screen saying... NRLDT missing or something along those borders! How do i get my windows CD to install! Please help! Thanks, and thank you for all the help..Im almost done!
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April 27th, 2006, 05:45 PM
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Okay, do you have a floppy in the floppy drive, if you even have a floppy drive? Do you have the CD/DVD ROM set as the primary boot device? | |
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April 27th, 2006, 05:48 PM
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No i dont have a floppy in the drive but yes i have one, and yes i changed CD-Drive to primary boot.... | |
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April 27th, 2006, 06:15 PM
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it should pop up at some point and say press any key to boot to cd. If you don't see that then you need to go into the bios and make sure both the cd drive and harddrive are both recognised! Then, you need to make sure u'r set to boot to cd first, then floppy, then harddrive preferably. the most important though is the cd first...if the harddrive is second and whatever then that's fine....cd first!! lol. Once that's all set you should deff see the press any key to boot to cd message, and if not, then we have other issues. | |
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April 27th, 2006, 06:50 PM
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How do i tell if it recognizes my CD drive, the CD drive light turns on...But is there somewhere in BIOS that will tell me where! Thanks! And hpw do i reformat my HD?! | |
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April 27th, 2006, 08:40 PM
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Does anyne have any other suggestions like reformatting? When i turn on my comp it boots to my old XP which will not work on my new comp...I need to erase that XP Please help! | |
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April 27th, 2006, 08:51 PM
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As stated above, set boot order to boot from CD-ROM as "first boot device." I set my other devices to "disabled," but not everyone will do that. It's a little redundant I suppose. Anway, XP CD-ROM will prompt for formatting. | |
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April 27th, 2006, 09:21 PM
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Press F11 and select your CD rom as the booting device in the menu that pops up. Remember to look out for the "Press any key to boot from CD" message. You only get a few seconds. | |
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April 27th, 2006, 09:37 PM
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when i press F11 the CD isnt an option :/ | |
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April 27th, 2006, 10:03 PM
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Ok, i got it to work, one of my IDE ribbon cables was bad...:/ im embarassed thanks for all help! | |
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