It won't boot to my Install CD. Tuesday, August 28, 2007 at 8:51 pm Windows 98 Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by gewg_ (3588 messages posted) (was: Win 98 BackUp CD) |My WIN98 Operating Sys CD will not run |when I Place it in the CD Rom drive and start computer. | Larry You do realize that this will try to reinstall Windows. Right? (Your Subject line and your text body don't match. **Backup** seems out of place.) |[...]Other Cds will start auto and run ok. | The difference between **AutoRun** and **Bootable** is vast. |I can access it thru My Computer and run it ok | What happens when you "run" it? |but it is supposed to [autorun] when you boot up with it in the drive. | Says who? OEM CDs are bootable; the ones you buy in the store are not. Most Install CDs require a bootable floppy diskette ("Startup Disk"). If your CD media *is* bootable, to get that drive to boot you need to configure Boot Precedence in CMOS Setup. http://www.annoyances.org/exec/forum/win98/1148835446 If the CR-ROM drive doesn't currently spin up on boot, your box is not configured to boot to a CD-ROM. If the drive does spin up at boot but nothing runs from the CD, that media is damaged or it never was bootable. Written in response to: Win 98 BackUp CD (Larry: Tuesday, August 28, 2007 at 4:01 pm) Responses to this message: re: It won't boot to my Install CD. (Larry: Wednesday, August 29, 2007 at 8:26 am) All messages in this thread [show all] Win 98 BackUp CD (Larry: Tue, Aug 28, 2007, 4:01 pm) It won't boot to my Install CD. (gewg_: Tue, Aug 28, 2007, 8:51 pm) re: It won't boot to my Install CD. (Larry: Wed, Aug 29, 2007, 8:26 am) re: It won't boot to my Install CD. (gewg_: Wed, Aug 29, 2007, 2:52 pm) re: It won't boot to my Install CD. (Larry: Thu, Aug 30, 2007, 9:30 am) re: It won't boot to my Install CD. (gewg_: Thu, Aug 30, 2007, 1:58 pm) Reply or follow-up to this message Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows 98 Discussion Forum