How to Boot a Tablet PC From CD

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In most cases, when you power on your Tablet PC, it will load the operating system that you use regularly on your computer. Over the course of using your computer, you may encounter problems with your operating system that prevent it from loading. In such cases, you may need to boot up from a CD to repair your Tablet PC.

Instructions

Difficulty: Moderately Easy

Things You’ll Need:

  • Instruction manual for your Tablet PC
  • Bootable CD
  • Tablet PC with CD drive

Configure Your Tablet PC to Boot from CD

Step1
Turn off your Tablet PC. To boot your Tablet PC from a CD, your computer must be restarted. You cannot boot from a CD by waking your computer from standby or hibernation.
Step2
Turn on your Tablet PC and follow the instructions to enter the BIOS. You will need to press the indicated button, usually the escape key or one of the F-keys, to enter the BIOS. If you are unsure which key to press to enter the BIOS, check the manual for your Tablet PC.
Step3
Ensure that your CD drive is selected as the first boot device. If your hard drive is set as the first boot device, change the order so that the Tablet PC first tries to boot from the CD drive. Be sure to save changes made in the BIOS, but do not exit the BIOS.

Start Your Tablet PC From a Bootable CD

Step1
Insert a bootable CD in the CD drive. You can boot from a CD of an operating system or a bootable CD that you have created previously.
Step2
Exit the BIOS. This will restart your Tablet PC with the new settings applied to the BIOS. If you have changed the settings correctly, your Tablet PC will boot from the CD instead of trying to boot from the operating system installed on your hard drive.

Tips & Warnings

  • If your Tablet PC does not have an internal CD drive, you will need an external CD drive. You can connect an external USB CD drive to your Tablet PC using one of the available USB ports.
  • If you are using a CD drive connected to a USB port, you will need to set your BIOS to boot from the device connected to the USB port.
  • When you want to boot from the hard drive, there is no need to change your BIOS settings again. You can leave your Tablet PC set to first boot from the CD drive and then boot from the hard drive, so long as you do not have a bootable CD in the CD drive.

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on 4/6/2008 detail prcedure of solve the erroe

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on 4/6/2008 PC shown an error NTDLR is missing. PC did not start . so how to frmat PC ?

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