Selecting booting device

Do you mean it won't pick the disc? If so, try F10 it should also give you a boot menu if you don't see press any key to boot from cd... The other option is boot into BIOS and change your boot order. CD-ROM/DVD should be the 1st option.

You need to re enter system setup Press Del and change boot device order to floppy, CD/DVD and Hard Disk

Worldvet

press F2 when you restart your laptop but for desktop press DEL when your computer is starting up to get it to the BIOS then look for BOOT OPTION the make the USB CDROM on top to make it the first boot.
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insert your Windows Operating System CD and restart your computer then press F8 multiple times and it will give you option to select CD ROM to boot from

You need an bootable XP installation CD.
Press F10, or DEL, or whatever to enter your ROM bios firmware menu while power on. Select boot device to be CD-ROM.
Re-boot to CD ROM. Follow installation instructions.

Offcourse! first of all insert CD into CD ROM then boot from cd. Select your CD drive like d: or e: or f: etc and then press enter. Now give a commond format c:/u/v and press enter. After the formating drive you can install windows 98 so now reboot your system again. Then boot from CD once again and choose your drive and install windows.
2nd way, If everything could not be possible then you should boot from CD again then select your CD drive and type a command fdisk and press y or enter 2 times. Now you choose 4 number and press enter and check the drive format if it is not FAT32 its mean that you should press 3 and then press 4 and now press enter then press escape. Then press three button at a time Ctrl+Alt+Del now your system will reboot now once again Boot from CD and choose CD drive and type fdisk and choose 1 then choose1 and now press enter and once again press three button at a time Ctrl+Alt+Del now your system will reboot. Once again boot from CD and select your CD drive and now you can install windows 98 now insert CD into CD ROM then boot from cd. Select your CD drive like d: or e: or f: etc and then press enter. Now give a commond format c:/u/v and press enter. After the formating drive you can install windows 98 so now reboot your system again. Then boot from CD once again and choose your drive and install windows.
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Hello,

Kindly repair or reinstall your Operating system. It has a file that has been corrupted. To avoid the damage become big try to repair it or reinstall the OS without reformatting or erasing the files save in your hard disk.
Kindly follow the steps below:

To repair/Reinstall your operating:
1. Insert your CD installer into your DVD/CD Rom then reboot your computer/Laptop.
2. Press F8 or F12 to enable boot sequence and display it in order to select the boot. Then select the DVD/CD Rom boot. Or Press Del to enter CMOS and set the boot configuration sequence and select the DVD/CD Rom as your priority to boot the system.
3. *** soon as message will display "Press any key to boot CD" then press any key to boot CD. Then wait for the CD to load all its components.
4. After loading all its components kindly follow the instructions givien by the installation wizard. Note that if you where ask by the installation wizard to press r to repair or enter kindly select enter then let the system detect the existing installation of OS in your system then it detects then press enter then kindly select "Repair" to repair the detected OS or Select "Don't make changes and make it intact" then enter to reinstall the OS without erasing the files save in your hard drive.
5. Kindly follow the instructions given by the installation wizard to finished the installation or repair of your system OS.
6. If you don't want to repair/reinstall by your self then you can contact a technician expert in computer to fix it for you.

If you need more assistance kindly reply to this post.

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geo_jonas

Do you have the original start up disc? If so use it. If not there is generally a button to use at start up that will get you to a screen where you can restore your computer to a previous date. The button is usually F10 or F11 or one of the f keys. Also make sure that you don't have a disk in one of the drives. Take everything out and try starting it up. Good luck.

First you can take One Bootable O.S CD and
Goto BIOS Boot priority First option CD Rom
Then Boot from CD then Press enter any Key to Continue.........
After that Windows Setup Running it will take several minits then select F8 button and Select partition and create New Partitions select C or D drive press enter Boot files Loading then Reboot your System After that instalation time asking CD key and Time Zone select it after several minits installation will be complete.Thats it

Basically you need to go to Bios to change your "Boot device pripority". Please follow these steps to do this.

Please follow these steps to install XP on your PC.

1. Please start your PC with power button. At the very first screen, at the left down corner, you will see the button to be pressed to go to Setup i.e. Bios of the PC. For most of the PCs , it is delete button. For some of them, it is F2 also. So, after starting the PC press Del to go into setup.

2. After you enter setup of the PC, please go to Advance bios setup.

3. There you select Boot device priority.

4. here the first boot device priority should be CD ROM, then the HDD. Please see the instructions given at right down corner and select this priority.

5. After you rightly selected boot device priority as given above, Press F10 to save the changes and then press F12 to exit.

6. Now the PC will restart again, but be sure that you put win XP cd in the drive before it restarts.

7. Now you will see a note that : press any key to boot from CD ROM, so please press any key.

8. The PC will boot from the CD ROM now , now you can follow the instructions given on the screen.

Just follow these simple steps:

1. Make sure you have all the discs included in your package.
2. After you power-up, strike del key to go to bios/system.
3. In boot selection, select DVD/CD ROM to boot first, HDD second and other if you wish..
4. Press ctrl+alt+delete to restart.
5. After pressing the tree (3), insert your CD/DVD installer to the drive..
6. Follow the instruction...

Good luck and have a nice day!