no bootable cd in atapi cd-rom

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Hi

When i start up my laptop i get the following mesg
no bootable cd in atapi cd-rom
Can anyone help with this ?
have tried the f2 option and the f8 option to boot harddrive and get same mesg when reboot on f2 option and a black screen when booting the hard drive on f8

any help would be greatful

thanks

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Jun 12th, 2007

Re: no bootable cd in atapi cd-rom

Sounds like your hard drive is knackered, hence it is trying to boot off CDROM.

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