Won't boot from xp cd

[sbeaver18]

I'm trying to reload my system with the xp cd, but it won't boot from it. I went in to setup and made the cd drive first in the boot list, but it still won't boot from it. Any ideas? Thanks

 

[smah]

I replied in your original post thread779-428077 put any replies into this thread to avoid confusion.

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With some motherboards booting to a cd, you will be prompted to 'press spacebar to boot from cd' or some such thing. Could you have missed this?

Do you have a boot floppy? If not, just make one in XP. Boot to the floppy with CD Rom support, then run 'setup' from the cd.

 

[Foordy]

Pirated copies of XP usually aren't bootable. Atleast a few people I know, their copies don't.