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yes...the dvdrom is detected in BIOs. The installation disk is also bootable as i installed XP severel times from it.
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this boot failure error doesn't always means dat HDD is bad/crashed ....its a rather a rare case ..
it can happen when system while booting cant find proper windows installation due to files corruption or when no OS is not found...
use a "Bootable" XP Installation Disk to install & set First Boot Device as CDROM ... so you'll get a message something like "press any key to boot from CD.. "
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thats the thing i am trying to do...but it is not booting from the disc.
>>>> took the CPU to the service center today. The DVD Writer was the culprit. Though it was detected in BIOS but it could not read the disk.
