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by infenetboy

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I reformatted a Compaq Armada M700. There is no floppy drive. There is a CD/DVD-ROM. I put the XP CD in the drive to install XP but I only get a message about an invalid system disk. My BIOS is 1.00. The multibay cd/dvd-rom works. So there is nothing on the hard drive, no floppy, and inserting the xp cd still doesn't boot the computer (oh, and in the bios multibay is the 1st boot order). What can I do to get this machine running again. Thanks

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by darts32

either the startup options are not setup correctly or the CD you have is not bootable. You can do a few things though.

make sure the startup options in the bios has the cd-rom listed before the hard-drive.

make a bootable cd you can follow instructions here: http://www.nu2.nu/bootcd/#wxp

You can purchase a external floppy or thumbdrive.

by dmiles

In the process of reformatting you deleted the cd-rom drivers and it will not boot from the cd without the drivers loaded.
Compaq has to be reformatted using the restore disk provided by compaq

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