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01-28-2006, 07:07 AM
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invalid drive specification on cd rom drive
i am trying to install win xp on a hard drive.
i took all the other hard drives out. the drive is a 40 gig Fat32 drive. the bios sees it, but it can't boot (no OS) i have the bios set to boot cd rom, floppy, hard drive. I put in the win xp disk. I get an error of no boot disk. so I put in a dos startup floppy, and it boots off that. it will change to the c drive and give me the dir but if i try and change to d,e,f... I get invalid drive spec. (i was expecting the cd rom to be the d) so I can't get to the cd rom. but if i put the old drive in and put the win xp disk in the cd, I can read it all, I just can't install that way... what next? I don't think making the 6 bootable floppy's for win xp setup is the way to go since the cd rom drive works, (and has been booted from in the past...)??? 
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01-28-2006, 09:15 AM
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I would check the jumper on that HD the 40gb
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 Check the jumpers. Are you installing it as a Pri Mas ? of is you CDROM the PriMas and the HD as a slave. ? what is your setup. I would check on the jumper on that HD. You said that it does work with your other HD. So we discard that the CDROM Unit is BAD/
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01-30-2006, 05:08 AM
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