Reinstallation OS Failure!!!! HELLLPPP!!

[natalielynn5]

My boyfriend was reinstalling/rebooting, whatever, (sorry im not the computer genius in this relationship lol) our laptop with the Operating System CD. He got to the second disc, and then left for work leaving me to finish up the rest. I went into the other room for about 20 seconds and when I came back I found out my 4 year old turned the laptop off!! ...... When I turned it back on, it gave me this message:

Press any key to boot from CD..... Error loading operating system

I called my boyfriend at work, and then tried turning it off, taking the disc out, turning it back on. This time it just said "Error loading operating system". Put the disc back in, tried again, same message:

Press any key to boot from CD..... Error loading operating system

HELLLLLLLLLLLPPPP! Although I dont know much about computers, it makes perfect sense to me that if you are installing an operating system and the computer gets turned off before u are finished, that yes, it might have trouble loading operating system, lol. But this is a very very bad situation, my boyfriend is pretty damn pissed , and we dont know what to do!!

Please someone reply to me on this message board, or even better yet, email me ASAP with suggestions. I have also posted this in the Laptop and Handheld Computers forum. thank u so much!

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[porterjw]

You mentioned 2 CD's. After your child turned it off, did you try starting it again using the First CD? Using the second one to continue will not work at this point, as the process was interrupted and the system doesn't know what it is/what to do.

Restart the process using the First CD:

Boot the computer with the First CD in the drive.
Enter BIOS and change the 1st Boot Device to your optical Drive *OR* Look for something along the lines of 'Boot selector Pop-Up Screen = Press this Key' message, then press that key
Your CD Drive will fire up and read the CD info...and the process will start again.

Or...just wait until he comes home.