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Old 09-03-2004, 09:39   #31
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Re: Partition Magic, Boot Magic: XP won't start!
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My xp disk doesnt boot like that
XP CD-ROMs should boot themselves, but you do ned to have your BIOS configured to try starting from CD-ROM before hard disk.
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Re: Partition Magic, Boot Magic: XP won't start!
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Is it easy to make a cd bootable ? My xp disk doesnt boot like that
My guess is that the CD drive is not set as the first BOOT option in the BIOS. What do you think?

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Re: Partition Magic, Boot Magic: XP won't start!
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My guess is that the CD drive is not set as the first BOOT option in the BIOS. What do you think?

Mel
Yep......

Check advanced bios features and look for boot seqence or 1,2,3rd boot device.
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