Guest waterst152 Posted October 7, 2007 Posted October 7, 2007 Struggling loading the original XP disk on HW that was configured with Unix OS. HW surpasses XP requirements. I've reset my BIO's to look at the CD drive (first) on boot-up. I put the original XP CD in the drive and reboot. The system spins up the CD (light flashes, hums for a few seconds) but the SW does NOT appear to load. After a few moments the Unix login prompt appears. If I login I'm back in, I'm sitting in unix. Please advise. Thanks
Guest Malke Posted October 7, 2007 Posted October 7, 2007 Re: difficulty loading Windows XP on a machine with Unix waterst152 wrote: > Struggling loading the original XP disk on HW that was configured with Unix > OS. HW surpasses XP requirements. > I've reset my BIO's to look at the CD drive (first) on boot-up. I put the > original XP CD in the drive and reboot. The system spins up the CD (light > flashes, hums for a few seconds) but the SW does NOT appear to load. After > a few moments the Unix login prompt appears. If I login I'm back in, I'm > sitting in unix. Please advise. > Thanks > Why are you starting a entirely new post about this when you have a very long thread already going about this same issue. You've gotten lots of answers already and posting again isn't going to get you any new ones. If you can't boot from the CD when it is correctly set to do so, then you have hardware issues. If you have two optical drives, try putting the CD into the other drive. Or perhaps this is a Unix box someone gave you that is unsuitable for XP and/or is specialized hardware and/or you are overlooking some option in the BIOS that needs to be set. There is no way that people who cannot see your machine can tell you. If you still can't figure it out, take the machine to a computer professional. This will not be your localized version of BigComputerStore/GeekSquad. If you want to continue asking questions about this issue, go back to your original thread. EOT for me. Malke -- Elephant Boy Computers http://www.elephantboycomputers.com "Don't Panic!" MS-MVP Windows - Shell/User
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