However, he said he was not seeing these messages. I had an older Toshiba laptop, 
and also could not boot with the CD. I was told to press and hold the recessed reset 
button, and that would set the bios back to the default. It did not do anything to 
my partitions, therefore, I was able to do a repair on my WinXP install. I am not 
sure if it would be the same for you, but it might be worth the risk.







On Saturday, March 1, 2008 at 11:36 am, Charlie Hadden wrote:

>OK I didn't understand. You have to go into your BIOS setup and change your boot 

>settings to have BOOT from CD as your first choice and then when you are booting 

>it should ask (prob. at bottom of screen) to boot for CD or DVD, push any key.  
To 

>get to your BIOS, at the very start you press (probably the Delete) your key or 
key 

>sequence as stated (hopefully) in your instruction manual for your comp. If it's 

>not the Delete key and you don't have a booklet of some type look at the manufacturers 

>web site. I couldn't tell you. Once you have it booting from the DVD then you can 

>follow the instructions I listed at the first. 

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