I had a virus and after a while my computer started to show me blue screen with errors before booting into Windows... then restarts by itself.
Because my cd/dvd drive was not booting my windows xp, i had to remove the hard drive and format from other computer. Now the problem is that i can not boot from cd/dvd drive, also system can not find any bootable file on my hard drive since i formatted it. Now i am stuck...please help me :)
Tips:
If the CD or DVD drive is not first in the boot order, your PC will start
"normally" (i.e. boot from your hard drive) without even looking at what might be
in your disc drive.
Note: After setting your optical drive as the first boot device in BIOS ,
your computer will check that drive for a bootable CD or DVD each time
your computer starts. Leaving your PC configured this way shouldn't
cause problems unless you plan on leaving a disc in the drive all the
time.
How do you know if a CD or DVD is bootable? The easiest way to find
out if a disc is bootable is to insert it in your drive and follow the remainder
of these instructions. Most operating system setup CDs and DVDs are bootable, as
are many advanced diagnostic tools like the ones I discussed above.
Note: Programs downloadable from the Internet that are intended to be
bootable discs are usually made available in ISO format.See How to Burn ISO file in CD for more information.
When booting to a Windows setup CD/DVD and many other bootable
discs, you may be prompted with a message to press a key to boot to the
disc. To boot to the CD or DVD, you'll need to press any key on your
keyboard (like the space bar) within the few seconds that the message
is on the screen.
If you do nothing,
your computer will check for boot information on the next boot device in the
list in BIOS (see Step 1) which will probably be your hard drive.
Some bootable CDs and DVDs do not prompt for a key press and will start
immediately.
Note: What happens now depends on what the bootable disc was for. If
you're booting to a Windows 7 DVD, the Windows 7 setup program will
begin. If you're booting to a
Slackware
Live CD, the version of the Slackware Linux operating system you've included
on the CD will run. You get the idea.
If you tried the above steps but your computer did not boot from the CD or
DVD properly, check out some of the tips below.
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Hi usavahe.
Booting from CD should be possible.
1) When the laptop first starts to power up, repeatedly press the F12 key. This should bring you to a screen that lets you select the boot device.
2) For the Satellite, it may show icons across the bottom of the screen. You want the one that looks like a CD.
3) It should the start to boot from the Windows CD (if it is indeed a bootable disc) and you will see the message "press any key to boot from cd".
4) Press any key you want on the keyboard and the Windows CD installation process should begin
Hope that helps
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