Cant get PC to boot from CD!!!

[gscone]

Trying to format my computer and I cant get the system to boot from the Windows XP Pro CD. I am able to read/write to the CD drive but when I boot up with the XP CD in the drive and click :"boot from CD", it just does not go ahead with the XP installation. Any ideas would be helpful!

Basic troubleshooting I already have tried..

Set CD rom as 1st boot device.

I also removed all my Virtual CD drives by un-installing them.

I can get into Bios, but can't proceed with format, just loads into XP as normal..

 

[gscone]

Anyone?????

 

[Blazer]

if it is a authentic MS cd and your bios is configured to boot from the cd, or you press F11 and get the boot menu and select 'boot from cd' and it doesnt boot the cd you may have a defective cd player OR a bad xp cd.

 

[gscone]

I have a brand new version of XP Pro and the CD player is good as I can read and write to it.

 

[vshah]

can't you start the install from within windows?

 

[gscone]

I could, but won't I need the software to load from CD after I reboot to continue the installation??

 

[Blazer]

what os is loaded on the pc right now?

 

[gscone]

XP is loaded right now.

 

[Blazer]

just because it reads and writes doesnt make it trouble free, try another [known good] boot cd.

if quick boot is enabled, disable it, any errors, pc specs please.

 

[Fullmetal Chocobo]

Definitely verify the CD that you are trying to boot off of is good, and that another machine boots off of it. If you don't have another machine to test, can you download a linux live-cd to see if that boots?

 

[akugami]

I actually had this problem on an older system with an Asus A8N-SLI Deluxe board. It runs fine AFAIK. Was on XP and I wanted to load Vista on it. Had problems booting off of a legit copy of Vista which I've used to load Vista on other systems. So the DVD was good. However, it would hang for over 15 minutes and not load at all if I try to boot from the Vista DVD even though the computer was set to boot off DVD first, HD second, removable third. What I had to do was go into the boot menu and select the boot device.

Not sure what to tell you except to try manually selecting the boot device. Usually you do this by hitting F8.