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Cannot boot from CD - need to format & install
I have bought an old PC just for the case. It has an 80gb drive in it, so I thought I would use that for a new Vista I had lying around. I installed a new motherboard/cpu/ram combo I had (all working well prior).
When I fire it up, the old drive had versions of both XP and 2000. However, both are corrupted an none will boot. The PC goes into a reboot loop each time, regardless of what I try. I have set the bios to boot from the cd drive with the MS original copy Vista, but it refuses to do so.
Any way I can force the boot from the CD drive - or force a reformat? I cannot get to a command prompt, even trying safe mode.
No biggy as I will just use another drive (once returned from Seagate), but it is a bit annoying not being able to do this. Perhaps the drive itself is corrupted?