# HP Laptop not booting from a CD

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**Created:** [September 20, 2007, 7:49am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/hp-laptop-not-booting-from-a-cd/35684 "2007-09-20T07:49:47Z")\
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**Author:** ![Dr.Stevil](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/da6949/32.png) [@Dr.Stevil](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Dr.Stevil)\
**Post date:** [September 20, 2007, 8:06am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/hp-laptop-not-booting-from-a-cd/35684/3 "2007-09-20T08:06:31Z")

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ya know, I’m an idiot. looks like the drive is shot… could of sworn I put a cd in, while in windows and it worked. turns out it’s not reading anything

thanks man

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