This laptop has been through hell, I've fixed a cracked LCD and my cracked hinge. Now I want to reinstall XP, but it will not boot from the cd. I get the "press a key to boot from cd", which I do and it just sits there. And sometimes jsut shuts down after a while. Yet in WindowsXP it sees the cd fine and can read it. But if I stick in a DVD-R it thinks it is a RW and wants to erase it and format it. So I believe the issue is the drive. Is there a way to boot from USB, or anyother way? I have a pcmia cd drive, but it doesn't seem to like that either.
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Emachines M6809 won't boot from cd, Help
time for an optical drive replacement? You can try to take the optical drive out and reseat it first and see.
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