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April 18th, 2004 18:00

reboot from CD

Hi
I want to boot from the windows xp CD on my Dimension 8300. Although I changed the BIOS to boot from CD or pressed the F12 button upon start and tried to boot from CD this way, this didn't work.
I always get the message to press F1 to retry boot but this doesn't work. The only option at this point is to choose F2 to reenter BIOS. Has anyone a clue how to fix this problem? Finally I want to format my harddisk and reinstall windows xp. Thanks.

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April 19th, 2004 12:00

Have you tried enabling the OS Install Mode option in the BIOS Setup?  Possibly the BIOS is detecting that you are trying to boot from a Windows install CD and is preventing you from accessing it until this option is changed.
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