fresh install - not recognizing CDROM - the dreaded MSCD001

[Guest]

i'm having a problem with a hardware upgrade and a fresh install of XP
professional. i've looked over the internet but haven't had much luck finding
a solution particular to my situation. could anyone point me in the right
direction?

i have two ATA hard drives (one new), two optical drives (DVD-RW & CD-RW) ,
a new Core 2 Duo processor and a new MSI motherboard. i've wiped the old
drive and set it up as a slave to the new (and currently empty) master drive.
i partitioned the master drive (drive letters C & E); the old slave drive
(drive letter D) will be for storage. the DVD is set up as master, the CD as
slave. my version of XP is an upgrade, so i will have to install ME first.
unfortunately, my floppy bootdisk for ME is corrupt, so i am using an ISO
boot image found here: http://www.answersthatwork.com/Downr...d_Boot_CDs.htm.

the boot disk appears to run well in both DVD and CD drives. the disk
properly transfers boot files to virtual drive F. when i try to run it with
CD-ROM support, however, i get that seemingly common MSCD0001 error where my
optical drives aren't recognized/supported/found. they will run the bootdisk
automatically, but when i try to access the optical drives through DOS to run
setup.exe on the operating system install CD, the drives don't show up as
available at all. i don't know how to check and/or edit DOS/BIOS based on the
configuration above to get around this problem. can anyone suggest a fix?

alternately, i do happen to have a windows media backup file of my entire
system (prior to wiping the older drive) stored on an external hard drive,
but i don't know enough about DOS to attempt a transfer of that file to the
new system. is this even possible?

many thanks

 

[DL]

You dont have to install the early version prior to the upgrade, you just
need the disk to point to when winxp complains that it cannot find a
qualifying version

 

[John John]

You don't assign drive letters when you partition the drive(s), that is
done by Windows when you install it. You do not need to install Windows
ME! Just boot the computer with your Windows XP upgrade CD and when it
tells you that it can't find a previous Windows version to upgrade you
will be asked to provide proof of a previous qualifying Windows version
for the installation to continue, at that point you will insert the
Windows ME cd in the drive and when the XP setup program is satisfied
that you have a qualifying version to upgrade it will proceed to install
XP cleanly, without need or hassles of having to install or upgrade an
older Windows version.

All the partitioning tools needed are included on the Windows XP setup
cd, you can partition and format your drive(s) when you install from the
cd. After you accept the End User License Agreement you will see a list
of disks and available partitions and asked to select the installation
partition. At this screen you can do any needed partition work. If you
delete and create partitions you should *exit* the setup program after
the partitions have been created and restart the setup program again,
that will avoid drive letter assignment mix ups, like having Windows
ending up on a drive other than "C:\". Format the installation
partition "Full NTFS".

John