Is you Bios boot device order set so that the 1st choice is the
remaining CD drive?
"Jake" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> My computer has a DVD drive and a cd rewriter drive. My problem is
that my
> DVD drive stopped functioning. I tried all the trouble-shooter
wizards and
> uninstalled the drivers for it and then reinstalled them. It was
still not
> functioning. I decided to re-install windows. So I deleted the hard
drive
> partitions with fdisk to clear the hard drive then inserted the
windows xp
> install cd into the remaining functioning cd-r drive. I re-booted and
found
> that the cd-r drive would not boot from the cd. I tried using F12 to
bring
> up the boot menu and told it to boot from the cd. It would still not
boot
> from the cd. I now have a computer without an operating system, a cd
drive
> that wont boot from a cd, and a non-working dvd drive. The system is a
Dell
> Dimension 8300, with 2.4ghz Pentium 4, 512 Mb DDR Ram, 80gb hard
drive,
> with a DVD Rom drive and a separate CD-R drive. I would be so
grateful of
> any help anyone could give me.
>
>
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