CD Rom Problem

[Niall 84]

Hi,
I have a Dell Dimension 2400 PC. (XP Home)

A while back the icon for the dive just disappeared from the system.


I assumed the drive had reached the end of its time!! And went and
bought a replacement.
It wont seem to install correctly either.
Its a Samsung SH-S202H (New one, the original one was a Samsung
SM-348)


In the BIOS setup it recognises the drive but says its not installed.


I have posted this on the Hardware forums but i'm starting to think
that as the drive clearly has power, and when you insert a disk you
can hear it spinning that maybe its more of a software issue.

I would like to reinstall XP as well, but as I have no C.D. drive I
cant!!
Does anyone know about reinstalling with floppy disks? As far as I
know it can be dont but I have never done it and dont want to chance
it without some knowledge of it!!!

Does anyone have any Ideas?


Thanks,


Niall.

 

[Mark L. Ferguson]

Restore CD/DVD Drives to Windows Explorer:
http://www.dougknox.com/xp/scripts_desc/xp_cd_dvd_fix.htm

 

[Niall 84]

Is that the one that gets rid of the upper and lower filers in the
registry?
If it is then i've tried it!! Got it from the Hardware forum also!!

Thanks a million though.

 

[me]

Is that the one that gets rid of the upper and lower filers in the
registry?
If it is then i've tried it!! Got it from the Hardware forum also!!

Thanks a million though.

If you are going to do a clean install set your bios boot order to
cdrom first. You can then re-install windows.

 

[Niall 84]

If you are going to do a clean install set your bios boot order to
cdrom first. You can then re-install windows.

I've tried that, but it still wont let me do anything.

It just skips past it and goes straight to loading windows.

Does anyone know about the dell system restore tool?
I think its something like CTRL+F11 but that doesn't seem to work
either.

 

[Jim]

I've tried that, but it still wont let me do anything.

It just skips past it and goes straight to loading windows.

Does anyone know about the dell system restore tool?
I think its something like CTRL+F11 but that doesn't seem to work
either.

I think that you should read the fine manual to determine the method of
getting to the restore partition.
There is one on my Inspiron 6000, but it takes different key sequence than
that.

Skipping past the CD in the boot sequence can be caused by a faulty
motherboard instead of a faulty drive.

Jim