Reinstalling Operating System

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IronHorse

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I am trying to reinstall the operating system on to a Dell Desktop. I had an encryption software that crashed the computer. I have done this before and it seemed to install most things by itself. My CD rom did not work so I took one out of another Dell that I have and installed in the computer that I wanted to reinstall the operating system on. It recognized the CD Rom and looked like it was loading everything just fine. Looks like it reloaded some things but I can't change the display and some other things for some reason, so I thought I would just reinstall the operating system again to see if something got missed the first time. Now the computer won't recognize the same CD Rom that I used to reinstall the first time. I did pull it back out and changed the jumpers on the back to all postions that I could and it still would not recognize it. Anybody got any suggestions I can try?
I thought about ordering a different CD Rom but hate spend the money if it is not going to recognize that either. Any suggestions would be appreciated.
 
Have you got the CD's that came with the computer? If so these will need to be run and installed as they contain your software drivers.
 
When you installed windows,it sometimes does not install the drivers for the computer,so all you have to do is go online and download the computer's drivers.
If your computer still boots to windows go online and get the drivers now.

I believe you are just not hooking up the cd-rom drive correctly,it either should be a slave or as a master on its own cable.Tell us how you have it hooked up.
 
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