Re: Failed Hard Drive
- From: Joanne <robjo65@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 12 Apr 2008 12:21:05 -0500
No, the CD is directly connected to the mother board, no piggy-backs.
The jumper on the CD is in the 'cable select' mode
I went to MS site and generated the WinXP setup floppy disks (6 in set)
and ran those. After their install, I hit the enter key to go to Windows
setup, and I again get a message that there is no CD drive on this
computer.
I tried a new flat cable, using the one in a computer that has a
properly working cd player in it. No Go.
I took the cable and re-installed it in the other computer, took the
errant CD drive and installed it in the other cd, and voila, all is
well.
Am I looking at a CD controller failure on the problem computer? If that
is the case, is there any remedy.
Thank you so much for your time and efforts regarding my problem. Your
expertise is helping make this a little easier to get through
Joanne
JS wrote:
Is your new hard drive connected to the same cable as the CD drive?
If so you need to set the jumper on the hard drive so as not to conflict
with the CD drive.
Usually they have there own cables, one cable for the hard drive and one for
the CD drive.
If this is the case then it still does not hurt to check that the cables
(Data and Power) on the CD drive
are fully inserted and not loose.
As a last resort you can reset the BIOS (see owners manual) and then see if
during the next time
you boot that the CD drive is recognized.
JS
"Joanne" <robjo65@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I tried to change BIOS boot order before posting this question. Problem
is, there is no check mark next to CD in the boot sequence - it in fact
states that there is no CD Drive on the system. Hence my problem.
I know without a doubt that the CD drive is properly plugged into the
system and also that is is a properly functioning CD Drive.
My problem remains - no driver on this new hard drive, so I think I need
to get the CD driver from floppy Drive A, but how to get it loaded onto
the system and be able to re-boot so that I can goto the CD drive and
the XP operating system cd. I did download smartdrv.sys and put it on a
floppy, but I still don't know how to use it to get the CD drive to run.
Thanks for your efforts on this problem - I do appreciate your time.
Joanne
JS wrote:
Check you BIOS, set it so the first boot device is the CD drive.
Also make sure you have the latest versions of the drivers you need for
your
motherboard,
video card, sound card, Etc. from the manufacture's web site.
How to do a Clean Install of Windows XP: (Read this as it will show you
how
and when to install drivers)
From Michael Steven's:
http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/cleanxpinstall.html
more info: http://windowsxp.mvps.org/XPClean.htm
and: http://www.theeldergeek.com/clean_installation_of_windows_xp.htm
also: http://www.bootdisk.com/
JS
"Joanne" <robjo65@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Dell Dimension 4300
WinXP Pro
I had a hard drive failure on the above computer.
I have purchased and physically installed a new hard drive.
My dilemma is that there are no drivers on the new hard drive of course
so when I try to boot to the CD Drive so that I can install my
operating
system, the computer doesn't recognize a cd drive as being part of the
system.
There is a 3.5 floppy drive. I was thinking I need to download the
installation of the cd driver on the floppy and then use it to install
the cd drive.
But I am confused how to do it. I am thinking I can only install the
driver into memory at this point until I get the hard drive partitioned
and ready for data. But I need to boot to the WinXP CD (I think I am
correct here?) and without the cd river I cannot do that, and if I put
the CD driver in memory as soon as I try to re-boot to the winxp cd, I
lose the cd driver. Wow, it is confusing just trying to explain my
problem.
Could someone please give me a hand with this. What do I need to do and
in what sequence please, or perhaps you can suggest some on-line
instruction that I can read and learn from.
Your help is, as always, much appreciated by me.
Thank you
Joanne
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