Solve : laptop won't boot from floppy or cd?

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Answer» I have an old COMPAQ PRESARIO 2100 laptop XP SP3 and it used to be ABLE to boot from cd . i was trying to boot to a live linux but it just ignores when i set the bios to boot from cd and goes on to boot from hard drive. Ditto with floppy drive. I was trying to boot to ms dos with an ms dos startup disk CREED on the compaq but when i set the bios to boot from floppy it just ignores that and boots from the hard drive. it will not even boot from a windows disk I even tried the return to factory image cds which i have successfully used in the past but won't boot from them. I was only testing to see would it boot not going to restore. Anyway it ignored them too. I note from bios that it is set to have the hard drive detected automatically but no way to change that and was presumably like that when i could boot from cd. How do I test the bios ?Quote from: wildoscar on December 09, 2010, 10:59:55 AM I have an old compaq presario 2100 laptop XP SP3 and it used to be able to boot from cd . i was trying to boot to a live linux but it just ignores when i set the bios to boot from cd and goes on to boot from hard drive. Ditto with floppy drive. I was trying to boot to ms dos with an ms dos startup disk creed* on the compaq but when i set the bios to boot from floppy it just ignores that and boots from the hard drive. it will not even boot from a windows disk I even tried the return to factory image cds which i have successfully used in the past but won't boot from them. I was only testing to see would it boot not going to restore. Anyway it ignored them too. I note from bios that it is set to have the hard drive detected automatically but no way to change that and was presumably like that when i could boot from cd. How do I test the bios ? *should read ms dos startup disk created on the compaq If hard drive is detected in bios, that's a good thing. There should be no reason to alter that setting. Whatever I want to boot from, I make it the primary boot device, I disable the rest of the boot devices. Did you try that ? Are you trying to boot with another device because it won't boot into xp ? i did not try disable other devices. how do you make t the primary boot device? i want to boot from live linux to access a floppy that cannot be accessed from xp. thanksQuote from: hcooke on December 09, 2010, 12:57:11 PM I disable the rest of the boot devices. Did you try that ? If I do and then it will not boot from floppy or cd how do i get back into the computer, how will it boot again?

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I have an old COMPAQ PRESARIO 2100 laptop XP SP3 and it used to be ABLE to boot from cd . i was trying to boot to a live linux but it just ignores when i set the bios to boot from cd and goes on to boot from hard drive.

Ditto with floppy drive. I was trying to boot to ms dos with an ms dos startup disk CREED on the compaq but when i set the bios to boot from floppy it just ignores that and boots from the hard drive. it will not even boot from a windows disk

I even tried the return to factory image cds which i have successfully used in the past but won't boot from them. I was only testing to see would it boot not going to restore. Anyway it ignored them too.

I note from bios that it is set to have the hard drive detected automatically but no way to change that and was presumably like that when i could boot from cd. How do I test the bios ?Quote from: wildoscar on December 09, 2010, 10:59:55 AM

I have an old compaq presario 2100 laptop XP SP3 and it used to be able to boot from cd . i was trying to boot to a live linux but it just ignores when i set the bios to boot from cd and goes on to boot from hard drive.

Ditto with floppy drive. I was trying to boot to ms dos with an ms dos startup disk creed* on the compaq but when i set the bios to boot from floppy it just ignores that and boots from the hard drive. it will not even boot from a windows disk

I even tried the return to factory image cds which i have successfully used in the past but won't boot from them. I was only testing to see would it boot not going to restore. Anyway it ignored them too.

I note from bios that it is set to have the hard drive detected automatically but no way to change that and was presumably like that when i could boot from cd. How do I test the bios ?

*should read ms dos startup disk created on the compaq If hard drive is detected in bios, that's a good thing. There should be no reason to alter that setting.

Whatever I want to boot from, I make it the primary boot device, I disable the rest of the boot devices. Did you try that ?

Are you trying to boot with another device because it won't boot into xp ?

i did not try disable other devices. how do you make t the primary boot device? i want to boot from live linux to access a floppy that cannot be accessed from xp. thanksQuote from: hcooke on December 09, 2010, 12:57:11 PM

I disable the rest of the boot devices. Did you try that ?

If I do and then it will not boot from floppy or cd how do i get back into the computer, how will it boot again?

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