CD-ROM DRIVE

[Rick]

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I'M TRYING TO INSTALL WINDOWS XP FROM THE FLOPPY DISK AND
IT GETS TO DISK #6 ANT THE SETUP TELLS ME IT CAN'T FIND A
CD-ROM DRIVE I INSTALLED A CD-ROM DRIVER CONFIG IT IN
CONFIG SAYS AND AUTOEXEC.BAT AND IT STILL CAN'T FIND A CD-
ROM DRIVE I CAN'T EVEN PUT WIN 98 IN I KNOW THE CD-ROM
DRIVE IS CONNECTED RIGHT BECAUSE WHEN I RESTART MY COME
THE CD-ROM LIGHT LIGHTS UP CAN SOME ONE HELP ME PLEASE
THANK YOU

 

[Guest]

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RICK wrote:
> I'M TRYING TO INSTALL WINDOWS XP FROM THE FLOPPY DISK AND
> IT GETS TO DISK #6 ANT THE SETUP TELLS ME IT CAN'T FIND A
> CD-ROM DRIVE I INSTALLED A CD-ROM DRIVER CONFIG IT IN
> CONFIG SAYS AND AUTOEXEC.BAT AND IT STILL CAN'T FIND A CD-
> ROM DRIVE I CAN'T EVEN PUT WIN 98 IN I KNOW THE CD-ROM
> DRIVE IS CONNECTED RIGHT BECAUSE WHEN I RESTART MY COME
> THE CD-ROM LIGHT LIGHTS UP CAN SOME ONE HELP ME PLEASE
> THANK YOU

1) Lose the caps. It's yelling, is incredibly rude and makes your posts
very hard to read.

2) Why can't you boot from the XP CD? Simply change the BIOS boot order
(if you don't know how to do that, then RTFM).