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No boot device available even with cdrom

Dell Poweredge 350 server stopped booting and says "no boot device available". I can get into setup and even with cd as the boot device with the XP disk in, it still says the same thing. I can boot to a floppy, but no other drive letters besides a: are available. Is there something that could cause the hard drive and the cd to fail simultaneously?

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waffleironhead

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pshedberg

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yes, I can see the ide drives in the bios. Why won't it boot from the cd?

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you can get the xp setup disk creator here

http://www.svrops.com/svrops/dwnlddisk.htm

just pick home or pro in the list. (it has all the boot disks for windows os's)

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