Hi! I'm trying to reformat my wife's computer, but when I pu the XP Pro CD in, and tell the machine to boot from CD, I get the message "Strike F1 to retry boot, F2 for setup utility." Any idea why, and how I can resolve this issue? She's using a Dell Dimension B110, currently with Windows XP Home on it.
Forgot to mention the Hard Drive works fine, but the computer is a few years old and she wants to do a fresh windows install to clean things up a bit.
Edited, Jan 10th 2009 12:14pm by crazyrick
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Did you go into the BIOS and change it to boot from the CD/DVD drive first?
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Did you get it reformatted already or should I continue you help you troubleshoot it?
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Try another bootable CD to determine if the problem is with the XP cd. A linux live CD would work out well because you could format the drive to NTFS while you were there to save time. Actually, you could just install linux and win all around.
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does the win xp show in the cd rom drive when the pc is running?
if not obvious answer is it is the cd. if it does you can probably eliminate the cd/cd rom, and try to get a boot disk to help with the startup, bootdisk.com has a bunch of them and utilities for them. Lastly I would recommend getting superantispyware and cc cleaner and running those in that order then retrying, it could possibly bea virus or other malware causeing the issue tho not very likely.
if not obvious answer is it is the cd. if it does you can probably eliminate the cd/cd rom, and try to get a boot disk to help with the startup, bootdisk.com has a bunch of them and utilities for them. Lastly I would recommend getting superantispyware and cc cleaner and running those in that order then retrying, it could possibly bea virus or other malware causeing the issue tho not very likely.
Make sure the CD says Windows XP INSTALLATION DISK. Pre-packaged machines like Dells usually come with a ton of CD extras, it's easy to mix up CDs. Also if you have more than 1 CD/DVD player make sure the CDs in the correct drive. And lastly disable any "splash" screens in BIOS, there may be information hidden behind it that you are not seeing. If it is a genuine Windows disk the "press any key to boot to CD" will come up at some point.
Good luck!
Good luck!
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