Installing MS MCE on a clean hard drive

[Guest]

Im not sure if Im in the right forum but my question is as follows:

My hard drive crashed so I now have a clean hard drive (no OS) and Im trying
to install MCE. Dell provided me MCE on a dvd with another disk containing
device drivers and diagnostics. This is a cd which my computer will boot to
while the dvd will not boot to. How do I install the new OS on a dvd to a
clean hard drive.

Hopefully this makes sense. I would appreciate any help.

 

[Bruce Chambers]

Im not sure if Im in the right forum but my question is as follows:

My hard drive crashed so I now have a clean hard drive (no OS) and Im trying
to install MCE. Dell provided me MCE on a dvd with another disk containing
device drivers and diagnostics. This is a cd which my computer will boot to
while the dvd will not boot to. How do I install the new OS on a dvd to a
clean hard drive.

Hopefully this makes sense. I would appreciate any help.

Have you followed the recovery instructions that Dell would have
provided along with the two disks, or asked Dell's Tech Support?


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[Guest]

I actually spoke to 4 Dell techs through out the last 2 weeks. They would
just have me run diagnostics on my computer. I just used Dell chat and the
tech fixed it for me. He had me turn off the PATA-0 drive and now the
computer is reading the re-install dvd. I installed the dvd, the computer
re-booted and I turn the PATA-0 drive back on. It seems to be installing now.

Thanks for the reply Bruce. Do you happen to know why I would need to turn
off the PATA-0 drive? Is it so the computer can read from the dvd drive
rather than the cd drive?

 

[Bruce Chambers]

I actually spoke to 4 Dell techs through out the last 2 weeks. They would
just have me run diagnostics on my computer. I just used Dell chat and the
tech fixed it for me. He had me turn off the PATA-0 drive and now the
computer is reading the re-install dvd. I installed the dvd, the computer
re-booted and I turn the PATA-0 drive back on. It seems to be installing now.

Thanks for the reply Bruce. Do you happen to know why I would need to turn
off the PATA-0 drive? Is it so the computer can read from the dvd drive
rather than the cd drive?

That's what it sounds like, although I can't understand why Dell
wouldn't have included the option to boot from the DVD directly.


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[GHalleck]

That's what it sounds like, although I can't understand why Dell
wouldn't have included the option to boot from the DVD directly.

It could be one of these setups where the CDROM drive is ATA-IDE
whilst the DVD drive is S-ATA, with the Dell not being able to see
the S-ATA controller natively.