I can't boot from CD but floopy drive is working. It is a Gateway machine. It starts with windows Xp logo and then goes to the screen with different choices to start up: Start windows normally, Last good known, safemode etc). In BIOS it is setup to boot from CD (light does come up on CD drive) then floopy and HD. I have even used gateway restore CD and Gateway Operating System windows Xp Professional CD for reinstatllation but it still keeps going to the same Startup Option screen
rajninehru wrote:
>
> I can't boot from CD but floopy drive is working. It is a Gateway
> machine. It starts with windows Xp logo and then goes to the
> screen with different choices to start up: Start windows normally,
> Last good known, safemode etc). In BIOS it is setup to boot from
> CD (light does come up on CD drive) then floopy and HD. I have
> even used gateway restore CD and Gateway Operating System windows
> Xp Professional CD for reinstatllation *but it still keeps going
> to the same Startup Option screen*
You can't boot any form of Windows from a floppy - the floppy is
too small to hold the system. It can hold a DOS system, however,
so that can boot from there.
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Try the download section.
"rajninehru" <rajninehru.3c0bed@no.email.invalid> wrote in message
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> I can't boot from CD but floopy drive is working. It is a Gateway
> machine. It starts with windows Xp logo and then goes to the screen with
> different choices to start up: Start windows normally, Last good known,
> safemode etc). In BIOS it is setup to boot from CD (light does come up
> on CD drive) then floopy and HD. I have even used gateway restore CD and
> Gateway Operating System windows Xp Professional CD for reinstatllation
> *but it still keeps going to the same Startup Option screen*
Is the problem that you can't boot from the CD drive or that you get the XP
startup menu appearing?
When you are in Windows can you see the CD drive and read from it? If not
then I'd suggest your CD drive is dead and needs replacing. If you can view
the contents of the CD from XP and simply can't boot from it then something
is amis - the only obvious candidate is the BIOS but it sounds like you
already have that covered. Although when you said that you've used the
gateway restore CD does this mean that you could successfully boot from that
CD?
The start-up screen you are seeing - with options for how to boot XP - is an
XP menu. Normally it only comes up if you hit F8 when XP first loads or if
there was a problem last time round. If you let it start normally into XP
and then tell XP to restart then does it still appear?
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Brian Cryer www.cryer.co.uk/brian
> I can't boot from CD but floopy drive is working. It is a Gateway
> machine. It starts with windows Xp logo and then goes to the screen with
> different choices to start up: Start windows normally, Last good known,
> safemode etc). In BIOS it is setup to boot from CD (light does come up
> on CD drive) then floopy and HD. I have even used gateway restore CD and
> Gateway Operating System windows Xp Professional CD for reinstatllation
> *but it still keeps going to the same Startup Option screen*
Well, you should be able to answer your very own question, because
1. Win XP has nothing to do with the booting stuff so you can forget about
Win XP, and now it's down to the computer
2. If the BIOS has option to boot from CD, and if nothing is wrong with the
BIOS then we move to the CD
3. Is the CD bootable?
4. If it's bottable and it won't boot then there must be wrong thing ain't
right with the BOIS
5. If the CD isn't bootable then forget the whole steps above, but to try on
the BOOTABLE CD.
CD drive 
Linear Mode
