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April 10, 2008 at 07:45 PM
smitzonian

Problem : Booting my Laptop from CD Drive

by smitzonian . Updated 18 years, 3 months ago

Hi ,
I have a DELL inspiron 500m .

My boot .ini file is not working and thus i need to restore/repair windows by booting it from my CD DRIVE.

I use F12 and changed the boot sequence but for some reason it keeps picking the sequence of the boot order specified in the BIOS.

I entered the BIOS and made changes in the Boot order and pressed ESC to save changes and exit and thats when i realised my ESC button is not working. So i was unable to save my changed BOOT order.

May be i can try with an external USB key board , however i would assume that too will need to be installed before it can be used and my LAPTOP doenst boot , its says UNMOUNTABLE BOOT ERROR!

Is there a shorcut key in teh BIOS that will let me save changes ?

I need help urgently…any thoughts ideas are welcome on the same…

Thanks
smitzonian!

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