- Reinstalling XP on Reformatted Laptop
- Posted by LAD on January 17th, 2006
My husband's company just gave away several surplus Dell Latitude C640
laptops to employees. The hard drives have been reformatted. They came with
a CD to reinstall XP Professional. We have the product code.
I've used setup to change the primary boot drive to the CD/DVD drive. The
CD appears to be bootable (I looked at it on my own Dell desktop at home.)
However the only message on the screen is "No bootable devices."
Suggestions would be appreciated. (BTW, I'm a long time Dell user and have
purchased many new desktop units for myself and family members over the
years.)
- Posted by Andrew E. on January 17th, 2006
"Used set up to change boot drive" thiers no such animal..To change boot
order you need to enter the BIOS,set to boot to cdrom or rw.
"LAD" wrote:
> My husband's company just gave away several surplus Dell Latitude C640
> laptops to employees. The hard drives have been reformatted. They came with
> a CD to reinstall XP Professional. We have the product code.
>
> I've used setup to change the primary boot drive to the CD/DVD drive. The
> CD appears to be bootable (I looked at it on my own Dell desktop at home.)
>
> However the only message on the screen is "No bootable devices."
>
> Suggestions would be appreciated. (BTW, I'm a long time Dell user and have
> purchased many new desktop units for myself and family members over the
> years.)
- Posted by Michael Stevens on January 17th, 2006
In news:26752278-7B27-40C1-8FD2-8BC25C081B37@microsoft.com,
Andrew E. <eckrichco@msn.com> replied with a ;-)
> "Used set up to change boot drive" thiers no such animal..To change
> boot order you need to enter the BIOS,set to boot to cdrom or rw.
>
Shows how little you know about computers. Dell laptops display a boot order
when F12 is pressed during boot up.
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> "LAD" wrote:
>
>> My husband's company just gave away several surplus Dell Latitude
>> C640 laptops to employees. The hard drives have been reformatted.
>> They came with a CD to reinstall XP Professional. We have the
>> product code.
>>
>> I've used setup to change the primary boot drive to the CD/DVD
>> drive. The CD appears to be bootable (I looked at it on my own Dell
>> desktop at home.)
>>
>> However the only message on the screen is "No bootable devices."
>>
>> Suggestions would be appreciated. (BTW, I'm a long time Dell user
>> and have purchased many new desktop units for myself and family
>> members over the years.)
