os wont boot
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hanit banga
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Check your BIOS settings, you need to make the disk first priority for boot. In some cases, you can press F11 or F12 to directly choose your boot device, so you could try that.
- Nov 11, 2013
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In Windows XP:
How to format a basic volume
To format a partition, logical drive or basic volume:
In the Disk Management window, right-click the partition or logical drive that you want to format (or reformat), and then click Format.
In the Format dialog box, type a name for the volume in the Volume label box. This is an optional step.
Click the file system that you want to use in the File system box. If you want, you can also change the disk allocation unit size, specify whether you want to perform a quick format, or enable file and folder compression on NTFS volumes.
Click OK.
Click OK when you are prompted to format the volume. The format process starts.
Once this is done, access your BIOS and make sure the boot order starts with CD-Drive if you will boot from CD.
From now, you should be able to boot from your windows 7 installation CD.
*****Note*******
If you still can't boot from the CD it may be a problem with the CD-DRIVE. Maybe you can try booting form a USB stick?
If you dont know how to make/boot from a usb stick here is a nice guide: http://pcsupport.about.com/od/tipstricks/ht/bootusbflash.htm
How to format a basic volume
To format a partition, logical drive or basic volume:
In the Disk Management window, right-click the partition or logical drive that you want to format (or reformat), and then click Format.
In the Format dialog box, type a name for the volume in the Volume label box. This is an optional step.
Click the file system that you want to use in the File system box. If you want, you can also change the disk allocation unit size, specify whether you want to perform a quick format, or enable file and folder compression on NTFS volumes.
Click OK.
Click OK when you are prompted to format the volume. The format process starts.
Once this is done, access your BIOS and make sure the boot order starts with CD-Drive if you will boot from CD.
From now, you should be able to boot from your windows 7 installation CD.
*****Note*******
If you still can't boot from the CD it may be a problem with the CD-DRIVE. Maybe you can try booting form a USB stick?
If you dont know how to make/boot from a usb stick here is a nice guide: http://pcsupport.about.com/od/tipstricks/ht/bootusbflash.htm
jitpublisher
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XP is on CD, Win7 is on DVD. Is your optical drive a DVD drive? If it is in fact a DVD drive, and you have it set to boot first, and you installed XP with it, there may be something wrong with your Win7 install disk. Where did you obtain it?
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