far Posted March 31, 2006 Share Posted March 31, 2006 Hi All Quick question - Setting up a new PC, Im booting from disc by selecting it from the boot menu however the PC spins the CD but then says 'please boot from drive or select correct boot medium' Does that mean the PC is not recognising the XP cd? I tried it in another Laptop and it seemed fine - could it vary from PC to PC? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jake Posted March 31, 2006 Share Posted March 31, 2006 Have you set in the bios for the PC to boot from CDROM before Hard Disk? Some PCs require this. Is it a laptop? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete Posted March 31, 2006 Share Posted March 31, 2006 Sounds like your CD isn't recognising the boot sector on the disc. I assume it's set as bootable in your BIOS or you get asked if you want to boot of CD? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carl0s Posted April 1, 2006 Share Posted April 1, 2006 You sure you've got the CD in the correct drive? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
far Posted April 6, 2006 Author Share Posted April 6, 2006 i've tried changing the bios so it boots from cd first and also manually selected it to boot from the drive. I also have tried to boot it from both drives - thing is I tried the xp copy in my other pc and its fine - could it be this particular PC doesnt like the disc? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ribenaberry Posted April 6, 2006 Share Posted April 6, 2006 Are you trying to boot from a disc that is bootable from? I assume you are trying to boot from a windows CD, it is possible that if you are using your "Backup" copy that it wasn't copied in the right way and therefore has no bootable sectors. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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