did you go into cmos (click del key a lot on startup) and set first boot device to CD? then restart? --fj
I was trying to reformat my computer, and I put my windows xp cd into my cd drive and it said please insert cd in drive.This was done while my computer had been started up, not while i am booting up my computer. I went into my cd drive properties to see if it was working properly and it said it was. I unistalled my drive and reinstalled it and still had the same problem. I then borrowed a working cd rom and installed that and still had the same problem. Could this be a problem with my hard drive? I also have no internet at this point (posting from work). Are there any suggestions? I am fairly computer illiterate so i have tried as much as i can think of. I can't do a system restore because somehow it was turned off. Is there a way to reformat manually? I am afraid of this because i am unsure if it will read my cd drives when i go to install windows xp again.

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