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installing windows xp on a new computer CAN'T BOOT?
I got me a new Alien desktop with AMD. It didn't come with OS so I'm trying to install windows XP. When I try to boot from CD it just sits at "booting from CD:" and you can hear the CD spinning for just the first few seconds and that's it! What am I doing wrong? Windows XP disk is a back up copy of original. Is it possible that it's no good after being copied?
4 Answers
- Anonymous1 decade agoFavorite Answer
It may be a bad copy or if you are trying to install XP on a SATA drive it won't work. You will need the SATA driver on an external drive or try to package it with an existing windoes installation with nlite.
- Anonymous1 decade ago
for sure its a bad copy. try the original and also when you go into the bios to select the first boot device, select the cd drive as the first and then disable all the others so that the computer will spend more time trying to boot from the cd
- Lionheart12Lv 51 decade ago
Yes. Most likely it is the backup cd that is causing the problem. You probably need to do more than just burn the windows os onto a cd.
Try to use the original disk.
Source(s): computer exp. - 1 decade ago
Bad copy. Get a real one!!!!! Unless you slipped streamed then just make another copy. If you try copyied try using alcoholer 120 it works for me when i slipped streamed
