I am going to reinstall Windows XP. When I put the recovery disc in either of my two DVD drives, and I restart the computer, it ignores the drives and goes straight to normal Windows. I get a short message asking me to "push any key to boot from CD" but that does nothing. What do I have to do to get my system to boot from the CD/DVD drive?
I have a Phoenix Bios with Windows XP. I've tried the "Recovery" disc that came with my computer, but it can't reinstall from Windows because it says that a new version is installed, so I've got to reboot from the CD. This is where I'm stuck....I reboot and the computer won't read the Windows CD in the drive...I've setup the Bios so the CD drives boot first but it does the same thing as if Hard drive is first....it just goes and boots rith into Windows.
sounds like either the disk is not bootable, is dirty or scratched or the drive heads are dirty so try a cd/dvd disk cleaner.
SOULUTION!!!! I thought I'd add this, since I found out just what the problem was with my PC. If this helps just one person with the same problem, then it was worth the time. After fiddling around trying to solve this problem, I took notice that for a few seconds during system boot, none of the lights were on, on my keyboard. I searched high and low for the problem and when I went into the system setting, found that my keyboard was disabled from using a USB keyboard and mouse in DOS. Yes, there is a setting for this...The manufacturer of my PC ("IBUYPOWER"....don't laugh, this machine kicks major tail)didn't set this up, so for that brief couple of seconds that DOS is on the screen, nothing on the keyboard worked. I'm just curious if this will help anyone. If anyone has this problem, please send me a quick note. jimimack@comcast.net Good Luck!
