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DrJekyll · 09-01-2003, 01:04 AM

That's the thing...it did the same thing when I tried to cleanly install 2000 and XP last summer. Halfway through the installation, it'd ask me to provide the CD. I'd browse, but no CD drives would show up. This workaround of copying the CD to the hard drive seemed to get me through the install and everything else is great, but if I tried a clean install, I'm pretty sure the same thing would happen again. I'm not sure if I need to try swapping around the CD-RW and DVD or whatever. Just weird that they show up fine in the BIOS and then Windows won't recognize them.

I suppose I'll pick up more RAM tomorrow and see if that speeds up the load and/or fixes the problem.

09-01-2003, 01:04 AM	#5 (permalink)
DrJekyll Crazy Location: Nowhere	That's the thing...it did the same thing when I tried to cleanly install 2000 and XP last summer. Halfway through the installation, it'd ask me to provide the CD. I'd browse, but no CD drives would show up. This workaround of copying the CD to the hard drive seemed to get me through the install and everything else is great, but if I tried a clean install, I'm pretty sure the same thing would happen again. I'm not sure if I need to try swapping around the CD-RW and DVD or whatever. Just weird that they show up fine in the BIOS and then Windows won't recognize them. I suppose I'll pick up more RAM tomorrow and see if that speeds up the load and/or fixes the problem.