RE: [OT]XP Help

["Phil Harris" <phil@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

I meant the CD ROM drive - is that definitely a bootable drive - I have a
24x Creative CD ROM drive here that simply cannot be booted from even
though
once installed Windows will quite happily use it.

Try pulling a more up to date CD ROM drive from another PC and trying that?

Phil

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Alancc [mailto:alan.cc@xxxxxxx]
> Sent: 25 April 2004 13:55
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [ukha_d] [OT]XP Help
>
> Just tried another CD that I know boots still no joy, the
> mobo is a P2 266, I wanted to use it as I know its stable it
> has been running Win 98 in node 0 for three years with no problems.
>
> Alancc
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Phil Harris" <phil@xxxxxxx>
> To: <ukha_d@xxxxxxx>
> Sent: Sunday, April 25, 2004 1:33 PM
> Subject: RE: [ukha_d] [OT]XP Help
>
>
> >
> > > Just tried it again with the raid controler out of the PCI
> > > bus, still does it.
> > > I have nearly worn out the A drive with all these poxy
floppies.
> > > Is there another way to install XP on an old machine without
> > > using the boot floppies?
> >
> > Arse! That'll teach me to read more carefully - it hadn't
> registered that
> > you were running the install from boot floppies rather than
> booting from
> the
> > CD drive. Sorry.
> >
> > I know it means spending money but wouldn't it just be
> easier to change
> the
> > mobo or CD ROM? Is it definitely the mobo that won't boot
> from CD ROM?
> What
> > motherboard / processor / memory do you have? Is the CD ROM
> a bootable
> ATAPI
> > drive? (I have one IDE CD ROM drive that just isn't bootable from
no
> matter
> > what mobo you stick it on.) Maybe I might have something
> here in the parts
> > pile that would help?
> >
> > Phil
> >
>
>
>
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