Boot from ATAPI-cdrom failure

I think that's what it said when I booted up. I have upgraded my system from WIN98SE to XP home edition. I have a CDROM burner that is primary slave to hard drive and a second CD/DVD drive that is secondary slave. Before I upgraded I changed the boot sequence in BIOS from A,C,SCSI to CDROM,C,A would this be what is causing my problem? What is ATAPI? Can I check my CDROM drives to see if I can boot from XP ugrade CD? Or will this take me to places I don't want to go?

Alicia

 

Hi AliciaJ
It's just telling you that you don't have a CD in to boot from. Go ahead and go back into your bios and change the boot order to say, your hard drive first.

 

Thanks Daisy.

That got rid of the message. If my computer won't start from C drive, it will then check CDROM drive and then A drive I presume. What if you just wanted it to boot from the CDROM drive (for some reason, I can't think of one at the moment if C drive ok) Would there be a way to tell it that or just by changing
BIOS sequence again?

Alicia

 

You'd want to switch it in the bios...like you just did, if you wanted to boot from your CD, to do a repair of XP.

 

Okay thanks Daizy.

Alicia

 

You're most welcome Alicia J. Thanks for posting back to let us know you got it resolved.

 

if you just wanted it to boot from the CDROM drive (for some reason, I can't think of one at the moment if C drive ok)

Most common reasons would be to run the recovery console if you don't have it loaded on the hard drive or to do drastic things to the OS (like wipe it out and start over).

Not things most of us need to do very often so I think Hd as the first choice is good and if you do need to force a CD boot for some reason, you can always tweak the BIOS settings for that.

 

Does loading the recovery console slow startup? I know it's on my XP CD...somewhere.

Alicia