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Hello all. Quick question.
I've just put a basic computer together from scratch and everything seems fine in bios. It has one 200GB unformatted harddrive in it and a CD-ROm drive. I have the CD-ROM drive first in the boot order followed by the HD and floppy.
When I put my windows XP pro disk in it doesn't read it and says, "Insert disc to boot from cd and press enter".
Do I need to FDISK my harddrive to format it first? Or should windows be running from the CD-ROM drive without a problem?
Any insight is much appreciated.
Ed
I've just put a basic computer together from scratch and everything seems fine in bios. It has one 200GB unformatted harddrive in it and a CD-ROm drive. I have the CD-ROM drive first in the boot order followed by the HD and floppy.
When I put my windows XP pro disk in it doesn't read it and says, "Insert disc to boot from cd and press enter".
Do I need to FDISK my harddrive to format it first? Or should windows be running from the CD-ROM drive without a problem?
Any insight is much appreciated.
Ed
