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No DVD after CD-RW installation
If you run Vista setup from the XP desktop and simply select your desired partition for installation your disk drive lettering will align between the two systems. If you set the XP drive as the boot drive and then boot the system with the Vista dvd you will get variation of the drive lettering (no real problem) and

WIN XP PRO RAID 0 Installation
You can no longer access the CD drive or the DVD drive, or you receive an error message after you remove a CD recording program or a DVD recording program in Windows XP: So the question is WHICH software did you install? HP scanjet? Roxio? Zone Alarm? Norton AutoProtect? Please review what all you put on it.

I give up!!!!!
Just installed a SATA Samsung S203 DVD RW which causes VIsta to freeze within about 60seconds! Have tried updating the motherboard, and graphics drivers but no luck. I did manage to get it to work just once when I disabled Magic ISO virtual CD device driver, at which point the message 'installing device drivers'

How NOT to install a second CD-ROM device..
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Intel solaris install
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Fatal Exceptions in Win98 SE - help!
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SATA Dvd drive install freeze with Vista
Hello, I'm hoping that someone can help me here, I've got a brand new machine that I've just built, and I am having no end of trouble installing. First off, Machine specs Asus M2n32-sli deluxe motherboard, AMD FX-62 Processor 4Gb Corsair RAM Samsung 200GB SATA Hard Drive Pioneer DVD RW DL DVD Drive Nvidia Nforce

SATA Dvd drive install freeze with Vista
Given that it is a MacBook and Tiger, Rick must use the DVD supplied with that MacBook. There is no retail Tiger (other than Server) which will run on a Either the drive or the DVD is faulty, or if it is a copy of a Tiger install DVD then it is a bad copy (or there is a compatibility problem between that

No DVD/CD Drivers For Fresh OS Install. What To Do?
philo ph...@privacy.net microsoft public windows vista installation_setup "Gainaxe" <Gainaxe.31y...@no-mx.forums.net> wrote in message Not sure why windows gave such a cryptic message for missing drivers(the exact message was on the lines of "A required cd/dvd drive device driver is missing").

I am trying to setup a BE6 II Mb...
It went all the way through the install with no problem. I was happy and frustrated at the same time. The only thing I can think of is that there was a corrupted memory register in some component (Hard drive, CDRW/DVD drive, etc) and being off for 3 hours allowed all the power to drain, hence allowing the potential

Win 2003 Srv install issue
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Installing Office 2007 with no DVD drive
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CD drive stops working after new XP install
I would like to install Windows Advanced Server 2000 on this machine. However, my bad, I got the computer without a floppy drive in it. The machine has a CD drive and a DVD drive. There is 1GB of memory on the machine and 120GB of hard drive space. I'ma programmer not a hardware or OS person.

Help with Toshiba DVD
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Sound card not working on fresh install
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impossible to remove Microsoft.Net Framework 2.0 and 3.0 ???
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1U server, no floppy, no CDROM, how to install OS?
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VISTA HOME BASIC INSTALL DVD FOR AN 8 PC NETWORK SETUP
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Allan/Janice - A Question
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