The solution depends on whether the DVD drive is bad or simply not
booting from the optical drive. If it's the latter, you can boot from a
floppy disk with opticla drive support and switch to the DVD drive and
start setup manually (I386/winnt.exe)
sealine wrote:
> I recently sold this machine that had xp loaded on it - there were no
> disks with the computer when I got it. The new purchaser decided to
> wipe the laptop and reinstall xp but the dvd drive will not autorun the
> xp cd. He tells me he has tried changed the bios to read the dvd drive
> first but this had made no difference. Can anyone else think of a
> solution to this problem
>
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