I have made sure both the BIOS and BOOT from F2 and F10 have the CD as 1st boot choice. I have the original OS disc from when I bought the computer but it won't come up. I used another computer to make a repair disk from systemdiscs.com and that won't come up either. It just keeps trying to reboot and makes it to "Reboot from CD" (I think that's it) then shuts off and starts over. Help!
Tryed safe mode f5
or f8 last known good
SOURCE: trying to restore my emachines comp. When i boot
restore windows xp is the option you want to choose so it can wipe out the drive and put the operating system back on it.
it probably says insert suitable boot device. If you are trying to boot from a cd go into the bios and set the boot device priority to CD as priority. If hard drive then set hard disk to the top.
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Hopefully you have a windows installation cd or a recovery cd. If you do then you need to install it into your cd rom drive. Reboot the computer and you will see a message that says to press any key to boot from CD. If you do not get this message and it goes straight to your boot screen then you should re-enter your BIOS and change the boot order so that the computer will boot from the CD first. Then reboot (if this was the case). When you enter the windows set up you will want to press R to start the recovery console. Select your windows OS by pressing the number corresponding with the listing for windows (most likely "1"). Then you will want to enter your administrative password. If you don't have one, just press enter. This should bring you to a command prompt. Once at the command prompt type CHKDSK. This will perform a scan of your hardrive and fix any errors. Upon restart, your computer should boot into windows. If not, then repeat this process, but instead of CHKDSK, type in fixmbr. Hope this helps.
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you could try a recovery partition if it has one, but other than that you will need the cd, if you prchased it from a retailer you can contact emachines directly and have them send you the CD, they are supposed to per contract with Microsoft. Sony got into a lot of trouble for not giving customers the install CD
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format ur hdd and re set it all up,
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And F8 does nothing.
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