Thread: lost in XP
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Old 07-03-2009, 06:16 PM   #4 (permalink)
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Re: lost in XP

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Originally Posted by spike2me View Post
If you are using a USB keyboard, try a PS2 keyboard. Many USB keyboards don't work in the Windows setup so you can't hit F8 to agree.
Although that statement is correct I believe it is gonna be something else because he was able to boot from when prompted to press any key to boot from from CD which is usually where USB keyboard will fail.

Just for S&G I would try a PS2 keyboard before trying the following.

If there is nothing on the drive that you cant live without I would try performing a low level format then fresh install.
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