Thanks for these answers. I forgot to mention that the machine won't boot from the CD, only a or c drives. I have tried changing this in the bios setup but for some reason it only give those two options.
It will boot from c drive into Linux, apparently with no problem, giving me access to the CD player (using mount/dev and so on). I would like to ask how to then reinstall the entire OS, from the CD, starting from Linux. Is there a simple command that will start the install?
Cheers
Russell
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