You need to change boot options in your BIOS, when booting the computer hit the F2 key several times and the BIOS screen will load. You then find the setting where you enable boot from CD drive and save the setting.
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You can and it will load but it will tell you that there is an error because the CD is meant for Dell only. You will need an E-Machine CD to boot or have some sort of Hirens Boot CD which can be downloaded for free by Googling it by name
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Check your boot settings in bios. If you have a dell check the back for error lights. Try removing a stick of memory, and then try the other one. Get a free disk called Ultimate boot cd, and run a hard drive test.
You set the bios to CD boot. After that reinstall windows with a windows xp cd.
Insert the windows XP Disc into the CD Drive, and reboot the computer. Boot from the CD. Then follow the instructions.
Home Server? never heard of it. You should be able to just install the CD and boot from it. Most Operating Systems will load just fine.
Buy and boot from a Windows XP cd.
Change the boot order in the CMOS/BIOS.
you have to boot from something else, whether it be a floopy disk, thumb drive, or setup cd. you can't delete files that you are currently using. if you boot into windows xp you can't delete windows xp.
You use a windows xp restoring CD or restoting CD from other companies such as WindowsPE, Windows XP usb edition and so.
normally that's the CD you used to install windows
Download and boot from the Ultimate Boot CD available from http://www.ultimatebootcd.com/ Use a disk utility to erase the partition and Windows will do the rest when you install it. thank you pretty good windows xp boot disk