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how do i boot off the cd?

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TJN23

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using a dell 366mhz laptop and just formatted the hard disk, i dont have a floppy boot disk but i have the windows XP cd, how do i get into the bios? F1 doesnt seem to work, or DEL...the DELL logo startup screen seems to come on too quickly!

do i just need to make a floppy boot disk or is there a way to boot off CDROM?

thanks in advance
 
Originally posted by: TJN23
using a dell 366mhz laptop and just formatted the hard disk, i dont have a floppy boot disk but i have the windows XP cd, how do i get into the bios? F1 doesnt seem to work, or DEL...the DELL logo startup screen seems to come on too quickly!

do i just need to make a floppy boot disk or is there a way to boot off CDROM?

thanks in advance
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try F2 during when the Dell logo appears. If it's not that, then i dunno. also try pressing esc to see if the logo goes away

The BIOS is where you would set the boot order. I don't remember how to use the DELL BIOS but it shouldn't be terrible to figure out.

Wrong forum for this thread, btw.
 
thanks man it worked fine, the reason why i posted here has already been explained, i found out quickly!!

hehe
 
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