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I just formatted my hard drive on my lovely ancient abomination of a computer. To format it i ended up using a Western Digital EZ-Install disk i recieved from a friend. So my hard drive is completely wiped, OS and all. Now im trying to install XP from a cd-rom but i dont know how to start up the computer from the CD rom drive.

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u just need to edit your BIOS and change the sequence of boot device to cd rom..

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To do that you need to press some key (usually DEL) while the computer is posting.


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