Caddyman
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Fri May 20, 2005 4:25 pm Post subject:
Win XP Upgrade |
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I have a dell inspiron. I am trying to upgrade from win 98 to winxp. My CD
ROM does not recognize discs very well. So in order to upgrade, I hooked up a
USB External CD-RW Drive. Now, it recognizes the win xp disc, and even will
run through analyzing my laptop. However, when it comes time to restart and
continue the installation, I get the message, "Cannot find CD". So, I took
out the CD ROM, and made the external CD-RW drive the D:. But, it did the
same thing when it restarted. Is there any way to install xp with an external
CD-RW drive? Any help would be appreciated. Thanks. |
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Doug Knox MS-MVP
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Fri May 20, 2005 4:25 pm Post subject:
Re: Win XP Upgrade |
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Unforunately, not as far as I know. If possible, copy the contents of the I386 folder on the CD to your hard disk. Then run the WINNT32.EXE file in that folder.
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| Quote: | I have a dell inspiron. I am trying to upgrade from win 98 to winxp. My CD
ROM does not recognize discs very well. So in order to upgrade, I hooked up a
USB External CD-RW Drive. Now, it recognizes the win xp disc, and even will
run through analyzing my laptop. However, when it comes time to restart and
continue the installation, I get the message, "Cannot find CD". So, I took
out the CD ROM, and made the external CD-RW drive the D:. But, it did the
same thing when it restarted. Is there any way to install xp with an external
CD-RW drive? Any help would be appreciated. Thanks. |
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