COMPAQ PRESARIO 1700T

Clarifications

First, please turn off the caps lock when you post. It's hard to read and is considered shouting when on the internet.

Now, to boot from Win XP CD, all you should have to do is set your BIOS to boot TO the CD first in line, before the hard drive.

The owner's manual should give you a clue which button to push, shortly after turning it on, to get into the BIOS. If the manual doesn't tell you, try pushing the F2 key just as soon as you are able to see anything at all on the screen. Other keys to try if the F2 doesn't work are the F1 key, the F10 key, the F12 key or the DEL key.

So you need to add the Interface Drivers that the External CD uses so if it's a SCSI Interface you need the SCSI Drivers added to the DOS Boot Floppy. If it's an ADAPTI you need the ADAPTI drivers though these normally are on the DOS Floppy.

All you should need to add is the Driver for the Interface being used and then edit your Bat File to load the driver/s. However this depends on what you are using to boot from I'm assuming that it's DOS but it could be something different.

Col