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Panther refusing to install: Log excerpts included. (help!)
If Quantex is replacing the hard drive and monitor at no cost, it must be reasonably new. On the other hand, it sounds as if Quantex is playing around with you. I've taken off all the added peripherals and now have only the DVD drive extra to use to install things off CD if I ever get that far.

No DVD/CD Drivers For Fresh OS Install. What To Do?
The symevent.sys driver... Norton Personal Firewall 2.5 and Internet Security 3.0 Do Not Work in Windows XP After you install any of the following programs and then restart your computer, you may be unable to log on and see the desktop: When this occurs, no error message may be displayed.

I AM SICK OF IT... SCREW THIS.
stephan step...@wanderinghorse.net alt os linux suse Craig Bruce wrote: Hi, I've just completed a fresh install of SuSE 7.3 (Professional) on a homebuilt When booting the system, both cd writer and DVD are recognised as hda and hdc respectively, the DVD drive mounts and works fine, but the cd writer doesn't

Winxp unattended Instalation
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. Set 2000 setup program will step you through the install. Leonard Severt Windows 2000 Server Setup Team -- This posting is provided "AS IS" with no

Installed Vista dual boot, think I screwed up!
When I try to use the WIN XP native CD writer, I get the following message: "There is no disk in the drive, please insert a writeable disk into drive D:\" What's strange is 2. Reinstalled Win XP pro with SP1 and other updates. (NOT a clean install, a repair install) 3. Ran FORCEASPI 4. Ran XP_CD-DVD-Fix.zip 5.

Update Mandrake 2007 to 2008
This is why I'm so peeved that Goback no longer works on my system. I can only figure it doesn't like SATA drives (it claims it can't find the system drive) or something Western Digital did during it's install/copy (but I've scoured the net and tried every change to no avail. I've got a good mind just to buy new

Best buy for Software Choice? [FUD4]
Initial package install took about 23 minutes using a Hard Drive install. All package groups selected except LSB, and only picked KDE, GNOME desktops. Disabled avahi-daemon during Configuration phase of install. See list of active daemon/service set on boot end of reply. Installed from a DVD. md5sum checked for

Install 500GB HD
A few months ago, I did a full install of XP on a brand new hard drive. Everything went fine, no problems, until I upgraded the cd rom to a dvd rom drive. Every boot there after, xp always saw the dvd drive as new hardware. If I attempted to update the drivers, I always got the same thing: data invalid,

Hollywood Plus Problem
Stanley On Thu, 16 May 2002 12:21:29 GMT, Stan...@sorry.not.here.net (Stanley) wrote: I want to wipe my harddrive and do a fresh install of the OS. I gathered all of the disks containing drivers for all of my hardware, however, NO drivers were provided with my DVD/CD drive. It is a Hi-Val 12x DVD drive and it has

Win XP Voodoo 3500 TV Encore Dxr3 = Trouble
10.4 came on a dvd not cd normally. holding down c should boot from a cd, though not dvd if your ibook only has a cd drive. does the install disk open when (There was no 550 MHz model.) They were available with CD-ROM, DVD-ROM, CD-RW or Combo (DVD-ROM/CD-RW) drives, so the OP's description of "CD-ROM" could be

Install of Suse or Ubuntu Hangs Using USB DVD Drive
I cannot repair or re-install Windows 2000. The Windows installer freezes once it begins to scan my Hard drives. Configuration (pertenent to problem): [Original] Device Manager showed no sign of a CDROM device. I would disable the IDE Channels in Device Manager, hook up the DVD drive to the Primary Master,

Install Win2K Adv Svr no floppy drive
I don't even notice a difference since I swapped it back to the regular IDE controller I run : 6BA+IV motherboard 512MB pc133 PNY ram Maxtor Ata66 7200rpm 30 Gig Nvidia MX/MX 400 64 megs Windows ME All updates DX 8.1 HP Cd writer 9300 52X Creative CD-ROM Generic DVD Drive SB Live first one(X gammer) Dlink 10/100

OT: Ping DanKMTB - The new DVD Drive
Type in the drive letter and/or directory name where you would like your XP copy to reside into, if you decide to install it to a path other than the Microsoft .... BAT in Notepad IF: your CD/DVD drive letter is different (D in this case): the "D:" instances on lines 2, 6 and 8. the path where UNATTEND.

No cd drive found during Mandrake 9 install
Ok, I'm getting prepared for the installation of XP Pro and I'm looking for some advice please. Here's the scenario: 450mhz/512KB ram (Dell Dimension XPS R450) 14GB drive partioned: C: 5.7MB (NTSF) D: 1.7MB (FAT32) F: 5.2MB (current boot) (FAT32) G: 1MB (FAT) H: DVD drive J: CDWR drive (no E and this is a stand

BG II.... BLARRGH!! no disk 5..
Then connected the IDE cable slipped the drive into the bay - I did have to install some screws that were in the side of the old drive into the coresponding holes on the new drive so the Also, if there is no disc in the drive, the drive will show up as, "DVD-RAM Drive (E;)," in windows explorer. Is this OK?

dvd drive is stuck
I've let it sit for hours to see if it would fix itself, but to no avail. The weird part is that I don't have a DVD drive, nor do I recollect installing any software with a DVD movie player. Anyone have any clue? I've looked throught the KD, but they don't address this. Thanks! Not an answer for how to fix this but

ompaq FAQ
I want to wipe my harddrive and do a fresh install of the OS. I gathered all of the disks containing drivers for all of my hardware, however, NO drivers were provided with my DVD/CD drive. It is a Hi-Val 12x DVD drive and it has worked flawlessly... I have NO complaints about the drive. It is apparently totally PNP

DVD Drive stuck even though Vista says there's no problem.
Type the path to the Windows Server 2003 installation files. Note, they are in the folder i386 on the CD. k.. When asked, remove the floppy disk from the It is the only thing I can do since the machine has no DVD drive and the CD is not bootable. My MSDN subscription gives me DVDs only. Hence my problem.

Unable to use CDRW or DVD in Windows XP Pro
PnPBIOS: Found PnP BIOS installation structure at 0xc00f72c0 PnPBIOS: PnP BIOS version 1.0, entry 0xf0000:0xa0e7, dseg 0x400 spurious 8259A interrupt: IRQ7. pnp: .... Priority:-1 extents:1 Real Time Clock Driver v1.12 hdc: ATAPI 24X DVD-ROM CD-R/RW drive, 2048kB Cache, DMA Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20 NTFS

Installation of second ( new un-formatted ) H/D - Questions ?
It has only a CD-RW drive because a SuperDrive commanded such a premium in 2001, and as I recall, a combo drive (which I certainly would have chosen) was backordered or otherwise unavailable at the time. I have heard talk that it would be possible to use Target Disk Mode between my G4 and my Powerbook, and install