My computer will not boot up unless my Windows XP cd is in the CD-Rom drive.?

January 10, 2010

I had to do a clean install of Windows XP Pro on my home computer recently and everything went just fine, but it seems that the computer will not boot up unless the Windows installation CD is the in CD-Rom drive. Nothing has changed with my computer hardware wise, and this didn’t happen when I first installed windows on this computer. I’ve tried reformatting and reinstalling but it doesn’t help. Any suggestions would be great!

What can cause windows xp clean install to be very slow, sometimes stall, then continue install?

November 23, 2009

the install is very slow, but is progressing. It has been about 10 hours now. What could cause this? Could it be the hard drive? Should I just wait it out?
I changed the cd rom drive and still same problem

Can I perform a clean install of Windows XP with my installation source from Drive D (Hard disk Partition)?

November 1, 2009

I want to reformat my system..all data in the hard drive cleared, in short…clean install. However, my CD-ROM drive is corrupted and I can’t install Windows using a bootable CD. Fortunately, I copied the entire CD to my hard disk as back up, and now I want to reinstall Windows XP, can I copy the setup files to drive D(secondary HDD partition), run setup.exe and then choose clean install? Are the data in drive D won;t be cleared also if I choose clean install? Remember, I will install Windows XP in drive C.

Installing a clean Windows XP?

June 24, 2009

I want to install a new clean OS of Windows XP on my computer.

How I usually do it is to boot from the OS CD then format the Hard drive then install a new Windows.

To do this i usually would change the priority boot sequence and put the CD-ROm Drive first… but this time it doesn't work?

I have the motherboard
INTEL D865GLC

It happens like this on all of my computers running this motherboard.

The computer will boot off the CD ONLY if there is no operating system currently on the Hard Drive.

But there is and and want to REdo it.

Is there a way to fix this, or is there another way to format the hard drive and then install a new OS?

Can software be loaded into Windows XP if the hardware device for DVD/CD-Rom drive has a error code 41?

June 17, 2009

I bought new software yesterday for my computer but am unable to install it because I get an error code #41 in the CD-Rom drive (Windows XP). Is there a way I can fix this myself without having to pay over 0 for a computer repair person to do it?