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[mellaby Profile]

Recently purchased XP ready PC, already crashed "primary master disk failure", under warranty and received replacement. Now I see when booting up a message that reads "Boot from ATAPI CDROM: Failure..." still boots up but is this telling me something is wrong? Nervous!

[Josh Pyles]

Ok, let me explain. That just means, that the system is trying to boot off the cd, and tells you. Nothing is wrong. It just means, if you put in a bottable disc, like winXP, or win98 disc, it will boot right off it. Josh

[tshooter Profile]

Also, your boot settings can be ammended in your bios. ( probably f1/f2 or delete at start up).Check your first boot device setting ( obviously this is you atapi cd rom)and set it to your ide ( hard drive . Once done, this should remove cd rom boot failure.