Boot from the CD or you can insert the CD while at the windows desktop but when the setup

screen appears,
exit setup and reboot. If your system is set to be able to boot from the CD, it should detect the disk and give
a brief message, during the boot up, if you wish to boot from the CD press any key.
Once you have pressed a key, setup should begin. You will see a reference asking if you need to load special
drivers and another notice that if you wish to begin the ASR (Automatic Recovery Console) depress F2. Just
let setup run past all of that. It will continue to load files and drivers.
Then it will bring you to a screen. Eventually, you will come to a screen with the option to (1) setup Windows or (2) Repair Windows Installation using the Recovery console.
The first option, to setup Windows is the one you want and requires you to press enter. When asked, press F8
to accept the end user agreement. Setup will then search for previous versions of Windows. Upon finding
your version, it will ask if you wish to Repair your current installation or install fresh. Press R, that will run
a repair installation. From there on, follow the screens.
"bushman91"
The suggestion that u put up is awesome... but i m afraid that doesn helps in this case... as the issue is becoz
of the write protecte boot record of Novell Netware.
I hav even tried to flash the bios... but even flashing the bios didn help.... reseting the bios manually also
failed.... the mobo that i using is a dual bios one... and still the prob remained there..
The issue is becoz of the mbr of novell... and that is very nasty.. only way i cud get rid of it was by performing a low level format o my hard drive... :blush:ops
If you were getting the following message while trying to boot up you computer
Novel NetWare Ready Firmware v1.00 (940810)
(c) Copyright 1997-1994 Novell, Inc. All rights reserved
VIA PCI 10/100Mb Fast Ethernet Adpater v3.32 (06/22/2001)
Analyzing network Media type, this will take several moments...
OK
RPL-ROM-ADR: 0007 915B 14B
RPL-ROM-IRQ:
RPL-ROM-PIO: D80
RPL-ROM-FFC: 1
You will need to go in and edit the motherboard bios boot order an most importantly remove boot capibilities
to the network card. Thi is what I did remove the Novell Netware Ready Firmware issue from text bootup
screen
Boot order as follows
1st boot device = flopp
2nd boot device = cdro
3rd boot device = scsi (In my case scsi, rather than IDE because I a using scsi hardrives with a DPT controller.) In your case, you are probably using IDE
*** Most important setting: "Search for other boot devices disabled
By setting that last parameter to disabled, you are stopping the motherboard from attempting to boot to a
network card. Chances are i you have a built in network card on your motherboard, you do not hav a
sofistocated enough network card that supports network boot.
Good luck
Sincerely,