new computer setup troubles

[Jason555]

I posted this here just because I am not sure where else to put it. I am making a new computer from scratch. I got everything together. I made a partition, formated the hard drive, and now I am trying to install windows. I start computer with CD rom support but evertime I type in E:\setup which should start up the install program it gives me this error message: CDR101: NOT READY READING DRIVE E anyone know what is causing this and how I can fix it?

 

[TKH]

if you are doing clean install you should put in a bootable windows cd, and set in BIOS to boot from cd-rom. you can't install from cd-rom if you are not using any bootable disk to boot up the system.

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[Scout]

Sounds like your CD may be bad... I've had a number of CDROM drives go bad over the years. First check your IDE cable (red stripe to pin 1) and master/slave jumpers to make sure you've got the drive hooked up correctly, and I know it sounds silly, but be sure you have the power connector hooked up to the CD drive (yes... I've left it off before!) If it still doesn't work, swap out the CD drive with a known good one and see if that's it.

Good luck!

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[addiarmadar]

Well if he did not have power plugged in then he would not have been able to put the CD in the first place ;-)



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[addiarmadar]

Try to make sure that the hard drive and optical drive are on different IDE channels (one on primary and other on secondary). Flash the CMOS would be good too. It would be easier to you had a OS disk that was bootable.

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[Crashman]

I've seen this caused by scratched CD's, but more often I think by CD-ROMs with extremely long spinnup times.

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[Jason555]

thanks for the responses. turns out I got a dud CD rom. I replaced the CD rom with an old one I had sitting around it worked fine. I talked with newegg (the place I bought it) and I am going to send it back for a new one. so I just have to sit tight with my old 16x for a while.