At A Dead End with XP

**phishhead** · February 18th, 2004, 22:29 PM

first would be to do a repair...set the bios to the default settings and boot to the cd and run the setup but choose R to repair the install.

**grego** · February 18th, 2004, 22:36 PM

That's what she tried to do, but it doesn't even make it to the setup screen.

**Conan** · February 18th, 2004, 22:39 PM

Originally Posted by grego

That's what she tried to do, but it doesn't even make it to the setup screen.

It's either a bad disk or a bad cd-rom.

**grego** · February 18th, 2004, 23:34 PM

If the DVD-Rom is shot, her Lite-On CDRW should be able to read it, right? Or should I just swap it out altogether?

**Conan** · February 18th, 2004, 23:43 PM

Originally Posted by grego

If the DVD-Rom is shot, her Lite-On CDRW should be able to read it, right? Or should I just swap it out altogether?

Correct, the CDRW should read it.

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