09-21-2010, 12:03 PM
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Originally Posted by _Hotsauce_
Trying to help a friend fix his computer after a nasty infection of multiple viruses/trojans. First problem, he has a dvd drive that isn't compatible with Vista, which is currently installed, but we're trying to go back to XP. The CD drive reads the XP cd perfectly fine.
I've tried to boot direct to the CD drive, but the computer seems to bypass and boot straight to windows. I also created a USB installation of XP and tried to boot to USB, and it by psases once again.
At a lose of how we can get a fresh install of XP on there if I can't boot to CD/USB.
Any thoughts?
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Have you checked the BIOS boot priority settings?
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