Cannot Read D Drive

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Joe

Hi,

I used Vista for the 30 days trial period. Currently, I am operating with
the reduced functionality mode. I am trying to reformat my hard drive to
windows xp, however my d drive is unable to read any discs, including my
reinstallation disc. How can I enable my d drive to read discs so that I can
use my reinstallation disc to reformat my computer?

Thanks,
Joe
 
Hi,

You have to boot the system from the XP CD, not try to run it from reduced
functionality mode. You may need to change your BIOS boot order to achieve
this. Once setup starts, you will need to delete and recreate the system
partition, then format it before installing XP.

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP

Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
My thoughts http://rick-mvp.blogspot.com
 
Thanks. But my problem is that I an unable to boot from the XP CD because my
D drive cannot detect a CD in the drive. I have tried putting the CD/DVD
drive at the top of the boot list, but it still skips over it because it
cannot detect any CD.
 
Joe said:
Thanks. But my problem is that I an unable to boot from the XP CD because my
D drive cannot detect a CD in the drive. I have tried putting the CD/DVD
drive at the top of the boot list, but it still skips over it because it
cannot detect any CD.
Click to expand...

You've got two separate threads going about this same issue in two
newsgroups. You've gotten answers in the other newsgroup. Please don't
multipost.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crossposting - crossposting
http://www.blakjak.demon.co.uk/mul_crss.htm - multiposting

For brevity's sake, the answer is to test by booting with a different
bootable CD and if the drive won't see it, replace the drive.

EOT for me although I'll monitor the other thread.


Malke
 
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