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by brett

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I am trying to format a hard drive and reinstall windows xp, but whenever I get to the part "press any key to boot from cd-rom" my keyboard is disabled! It works at all other times, including when I first boot up (I can go into the BIOS using the "del" key) and when I am in windows! Can someone please tell me why it is disabling itself, or how I can boot up from my windows xp cd without having to press a key? The keyboard is a usb microsoft office keyboard (the ps2 ports aren't working so Ican't use a ps2 keyboard).

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by tech

Have you tried any other keyboard?

Instead of pressing any key, have tried to press F8 wihtout the bootable CD (boot from HDD w/ windows installed) to enter the advanced boot options... if pressing F8 does not do anything, then maybe your KB is not recognized at that point in time of booting..

If you are able to enter the advanced boot options... try to press ENTER or ESC... because when I tried to do the same thing, but instead i used CTRL and it would not let me boot...

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