Please help!!

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ok, my windows XP just won't start, i keep getting a Please insert a bootable CD or disk or soemthing like that.

I think some of the files might be damaged or corrupted, but if I reinstall windows again, it will delete all my files and documents, so what can I do?

I've even tried to put this disc as a slave in another PC and it won't let me go into My documents.
please help!
 
Is there anything in your diskette drive or your CD drive when you start the
computer? I once thought I'd lost a diskette...found it when the old PC
wouldn't start (:->

Rocky

Melissa said:
ok, my windows XP just won't start, i keep getting a Please insert a
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bootable CD or disk or soemthing like that.
I think some of the files might be damaged or corrupted, but if I
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reinstall windows again, it will delete all my files and documents, so what
can I do?
 
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Is there anything in your diskette drive or your CD drive when you start the
computer? I once thought I'd lost a diskette...found it when the old PC
wouldn't start (:->

Rocky

Please insert a
bootable CD or disk or soemthing like that. corrupted, but if I
reinstall windows again, it will delete all my files and documents, so what
can I do? PC and it won't let
me go into My documents.


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Check in your bios that you are booting from the drive
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that has windows in it. If it's set to boot from a drive
with no bootable disk it wont start. It's usually the C
drive, but you may have set it to boot from the cd drive
when you installed windows, you have to set to boot from
the windows drive after installing windows.
 
Neil:

The BIOS tells the computer where to look for a bootable operating system
and, if no bootable OS is found there, where to look next. In most PCs sold
today, the computer looks in the CD drive first, and if no bootable OS is
found there it will look to the floppy drive next and then to the hard
drive. So it's really the 'boot order' that's specified in the BIOS.

However, if there's a non-bootable disk in the CD or floppy drive, the BIOS
won't automatically move on to the next drive. Instead, the boot process
halts and the BIOS asks: "Did you intend to put a bootable disk in your
CD/floppy drive?"

Rocky
 
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