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G - 30 Jul 2008 22:01 GMT

Have another post (Re: virus! Need to remove.) and one of the
troubleshooting steps is to log into the the recovery console on my winxp
installation disk and run some dos commands. Unforunately the computer has
other ideas! Won't boot to the cd, instead goes to the hard drive where the
probable virus resides. Boot sequence is floppy/cd-rom/hard drive. Any
suggestions would be appreciated.

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Bob H - 30 Jul 2008 22:29 GMT

> Have another post (Re: virus! Need to remove.) and one of the
> troubleshooting steps is to log into the the recovery console on my winxp
> installation disk and run some dos commands. Unforunately the computer has
> other ideas! Won't boot to the cd, instead goes to the hard drive where the
> probable virus resides. Boot sequence is floppy/cd-rom/hard drive. Any
> suggestions would be appreciated.

Go into the BIOS and change the Boot sequence to cd-rom/hard
drive/floppy. Then the cd should boot ok for you.

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G - 30 Jul 2008 23:44 GMT

no luck. says its doesn't recognize it!? went into setup and it shows it
enabled.

> > Have another post (Re: virus! Need to remove.) and one of the
> > troubleshooting steps is to log into the the recovery console on my winxp
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> Go into the BIOS and change the Boot sequence to cd-rom/hard
> drive/floppy. Then the cd should boot ok for you.

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Bob H - 31 Jul 2008 08:35 GMT

> no luck. says its doesn't recognize it!? went into setup and it shows it
> enabled.
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>> Go into the BIOS and change the Boot sequence to cd-rom/hard
>> drive/floppy. Then the cd should boot ok for you.

What isn't recognised, the cd-rom or cd?
Can you be more specific and are getting any error messages when you try
to boot from the cd.
Maybe the cd isn't bootable, but without more info I don't know.

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