norris Posted September 30, 2009 Report Share Posted September 30, 2009 hello,I have a old laptop and the os corrupted so i brought a new pc. I was tidying up the other day and i found my old laptop and xp pro iso disk and i set the pc bios to boot from cd and put the disk in but it just comes up with a little dash in the top corner that flashes and does not do any more, i have tried to use my external cd drive (bios as usb boot) as well and that just come up and says no bootable device. I have even tryed it on my new laptop and the same happens,PLEASE HELP ME!!!thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ɹəuəllıʍ ʇɐb Posted September 30, 2009 Report Share Posted September 30, 2009 Welcome to the Windows Forum.The first thing really is to find whether you have a bootable disk or not; try it with the new PC.If it is not bootable, then you will need to boot by other means (e.g. floppy), then run SETUP from there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hb_Kai Posted September 30, 2009 Report Share Posted September 30, 2009 hello,xp pro iso diskIs this one that has been downloaded?If so, is it actually XP Pro'? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-pops- Posted September 30, 2009 Report Share Posted September 30, 2009 Windows XP (or any other version of Windows) is not and never has been available as an ISO disk. It is either preloaded on a computer or on a genuine disk available from Microsoft. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hb_Kai Posted September 30, 2009 Report Share Posted September 30, 2009 No but you can find illegal versions of the OS Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-pops- Posted September 30, 2009 Report Share Posted September 30, 2009 No but you can find illegal versions of the OSYes, indeed, in which case we cannot help. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
norris Posted September 30, 2009 Author Report Share Posted September 30, 2009 hello, thanks for all the replys i have looked at the disk and it is not a iso disk it is a full windwos disk for xp pro and it is not a bootable disk.It is a os insterlation disk, the os on the laptop is crupted and i want to reinstall the os to it how do i do that? i can not boot to install after booting and any way i dont know how to install after booting.How do i install the new os from the os disk?also just out of intrest how do i install a os after boot?thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hb_Kai Posted September 30, 2009 Report Share Posted September 30, 2009 Are you sure you are not able to boot from this disc? I may be wrong but I thought all OS installation discs are bootable discs. Like Pat Wilener said; are you able to boot from floppy and run the setup from there? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boris Posted September 30, 2009 Report Share Posted September 30, 2009 Have you set the laptop BIOS to boot from CD ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
norris Posted September 30, 2009 Author Report Share Posted September 30, 2009 hello,i have tryed it on 2 laptops and i found that the one laptop has a broken cd drive so that was no good but i tryed it on a computer with a cd drive that i have used earlia today to open media in vista and wehn i try to boot from the cd it just comes up with a likkle underscore that flashes in the top corneer and yes the laptop is set to bios cd boot.PLEASE HELP Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-pops- Posted September 30, 2009 Report Share Posted September 30, 2009 That is very odd. A computer set to boot from CD will look for the next drive in the list if the CD is not bootable.Are you able to access the BIOS? If yes, what does it say about the hard drive? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
norris Posted September 30, 2009 Author Report Share Posted September 30, 2009 Quote:That is very odd. A computer set to boot from CD will look for the next drive in the list if the CD is not bootable.Are you able to access the BIOS? If yes, what does it say about the hard drive?i can access biso yes.hard drive is no 2 in boot sequence but it just boots from cd i get a flashing underscore so i finds the disk.PLZ help me fix this!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rong Posted September 30, 2009 Report Share Posted September 30, 2009 I have never used a recovery CD so not sure how they work, question is is the broken CD drive on the laptop you are trying to restore? if so is it possible that as the recovery CD can't find the recovery partition on the other computer it has nowhere to go? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ɹəuəllıʍ ʇɐb Posted October 1, 2009 Report Share Posted October 1, 2009 Does your laptop have a floppy drive? If so, make a bootable floppy disk (get it from http://www.bootdisk.com/), boot it (you may need to modify the BIOS boot sequence again), then run SETUP from your Windows recovery disk. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alocktbn Posted October 2, 2009 Report Share Posted October 2, 2009 hello,i have tried to use my external cd drive (bios as usb boot) PLEASE HELP ME!!!thanksi just curious.. can we boot OS cd using externel cd drive that using usb? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-pops- Posted October 2, 2009 Report Share Posted October 2, 2009 i just curious.. can we boot OS cd using externel cd drive that using usb?Depends whether the motherboard has "legacy USB support" - that is motherboard having its own USB drivers rather than depending on Windows for them. Some boards have this support, some do not. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
forum7938 Posted October 10, 2009 Report Share Posted October 10, 2009 Yes, it is true. Windows does not come in ISO disk. If you want to use a Windows disk, then you have to buy it from authorized license partners of Mircosoft. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hb_Kai Posted October 10, 2009 Report Share Posted October 10, 2009 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lulababo Posted October 10, 2009 Report Share Posted October 10, 2009 The first thing really is to find whether you have a bootable disk or not; try it with the new PC. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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