HP laptop will not boot from CD

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Son's HP laptop's os (XP) will get to desk top but never load icons, just sit there. I was going to format and reinstall XP but it would not boot from cd. The cd drive was making a clicking noise, so I replaced it assuming it was bad, but still will not boot from cd. It will get to the point of press any key to boot from cd and just stay there. Tried a lynix cd and still no boot and my XP pro with same results.Would resetting cmos by chance get it going? If so what is involved with a laptop in resetting? Any help would be appreciated, he uses it at school. thanks

 

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anyone????

No one , got any ideas?

 

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Does the Laptop have a floppy drive?

If so try creating a boot disk and boot from a floppy instead to initiate the install.

XP Pro

XP Home

 

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has a external usb floppy, I tried it and nothing.

 

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LSC_YA said:

has a external usb floppy, I tried it and nothing.

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Just covering all the bases so don't be offended.

Did you change the boot sequence in the BIOS so that it reads from the floppy drive first?

 

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yes I did,I have changed from A to d and so on, depending on what I was trying to boot. I used various floopy boot disk, Windows xp pro and 2 diffrent lynix distros.

 

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Back to the CD-ROM is it a removable bay type device if so. Remove it and make sure all the contacts inside the laptop look to be in good shape.

 

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Yes I have checked them (drive and laptop) and they look fine, Also tried another cd drive and no change.

 

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Did you change the boot order so that Floppy and CD-ROM are before HDD-0?
One other method I can think of outside of everything that was tried is to boot to prompt from the F8 menu as windows first starts to load, then access the CD drive that way.

Then the last resort is to take the hard drive out of the laptop, use a 44-pin to 40-pin IDE adapter and format it using a desktop machine. Then drag-drop the files off of the CD that you need to run setup.

 

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I had a similar problem on my laptop and the only way that it would boot from CD (through PCMCIA slot) was by setting the boot order in the BIOS and saving it right before I wanted to boot from it, regardless that it had been the same order before that.