Hi there, you have to go BIOS set up first. From there you have to select the first bootable drive is your CD/DVD rom in place of your HDD drive. Then save the setting and restart the PC npormal way.You will see the PC reading your disk & ask for press any key to continue for booting. I home its helpful for you. Thanks.
Hi gousia begum,
You need the windows CD only to install Windows again; it can't help in the formatting. Here is what you can do: take out the CD and keep it far away for the time being. As the computer starts and comes to the motherboard screen, do you see a line "Press F1 to enter Setup" or "Press Del to enter Setup." Press the required button to go to the BIOS screen. Now the BIOS screen varies slightly from system to system, but you use your keyboard to go to the tab "Boot" and under Boot Priority, set the name of your CD Drive [the CD Drive is probably set to Secondary master, if you don't know what it's name is, use the name of the Secondary Master]. There, that would do away with having to press the F8 key upon booting up.
To format Windows, boot into Windows. Press Win + R to bring up the Run command box. In the command, type "cmd". This will bring up the command prompt.
Now type "format c:\" to format the drive C. If you want to do the other drives as well, it might be better to do those first before attacking the drive where Windows is installed.
WARNING: Formatting gets rid of every bit of data on a drive, which I suppose you know. Please ensure you backup any relevant data before you do this (except things belonging to Windows, like Fonts and themes and stuff.)
After formatting, insert the CD and reboot. If you'd successfully managed to set your CD drive as your Boot Drive, then Windows XP should get automatically installed. If you could not, then you'll have to rely on hitting the F8 at the correct moment :). Actually, which brings me to the answer, you are hitting the F8 too late. Hit it as soon as the Motherboard screen disappears.
Hope this helps. Please contact back for any more help.
Enter BIOS settings and change the boot order. Put CD/DVD drive before any HDD and it should boot to the CD automatically, or at least prompt you. The Service pack is just a service pack, it isn't a full windows install. You would still need to boot from a windows XP disc, reformat, reinstall XP and then install the service pack once you have XP on there unless your disk has everything on it. i.e. Windows XP WITH Service Pack 2, 3 etc.
Creating a Windows XP boot disk
Note: The Microsoft Windows XP CD is a bootable CD and in many cases you should not need a bootable floppy diskette. Booting from the Windows XP CD will allow you to not only install/re-install Windows XP but will also allow you to troubleshoot it.
Create MS-DOS bootable diskette
When formatting a floppy diskette, users have the option of creating a MS-DOS startup disk, follow the below steps to do this.
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