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wont boot from cd

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by vincentbenjamin

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io have an emachine 400i3 and i tryed everything to boot from cd but i get a message stating that boot record cdrom not found, how can i boot from cd to reinstall.

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by thumbsup2

It's telling you that what it sees in the drive isn't valid. What do you have in there? Is it a COPY of an OS installation CD? If so, try using the original.

by older mycroft

Is that EXACTLY what the error message says? If so, I've never seen that error message before.

Try going into the BIOS and changing the boot order of the devices. You want the CD ROM to be first in the boot order BEFORE the hard drive.

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