Greetings--

I see you've got the BIOS set to boot from the CD, but it does not seem to be doing so. While it may not work, I would press the appropriate key to access the BIOS, then look for the boot device/boot sequence again to make sure it can and is booting from the CD. If it is set to boot from the CD, change and save the setting to allow it to boot from the hard disk. Let it do so, shut it down, then power it up and immediately go into the BIOS setup and change the whatever settings you need to in order to allow a boot from the optical disk and to make it the first choice. Then see if you can boot from the Hiren disk and fix whatever's busted.

HTH. 

Paul A. Shippert
Administrative Assistant
Friends of St. Clement's Island and Piney Point Museums
Phone: 410-326-6854 (H), 410-231-0950 (C or Text)

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From: "cubbettee cubbettee" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Monday, June 9, 2014 1:18:18 PM
Subject: [PCBUILD] boot issue

 




Well friend got another virus again--this one did not seem so bad as only one box poped up asking for money, or police would be called and givng him a countdown which keeps changing when he does not comply--he thinks he got the one that was just in the papers.  Anyway I am having problem.  Normally I just use a hiren Boot Disk and run Acronis and restore an image--this gets does about every 6 months for years  The computer is set to boot from cd.  However it will not and just is going into windows.  I even tried another copy of my Hiren Boot cd as well in case my original copy that I had been using was too scratched.  I know the rom works as I put in a cd of music and was able to see the files listed.  With the two copies of the Hiren, it would not show the files even though the drive seems to be flickering at its normal pace for that cd.  From  the booting I tried f5 to go to safe mode and that hung as well as f10 for system recovery.  So I logged back into the  main user and did system restore which after reboot  said it changed nothing.  Then I tried from the hardly used profile which did not have all the pop up boxes, and I got the same result.  Then I tried safe mode again and this time I was able to get in but still after a long delay.  Used the default HP administrator that gets created and the system restore took much longer, and it was only half way done whencomputer  rebooted and went into windows.  The I tried the Hiren boot cd again to no avial booting.  Any idea what I can do?  The issues are still in his machine although it  is seeming to be a bit quicker
 
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                          PCSOFT's List Owners:
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