Drinkinbuddy
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The PC in question has a cd-rw drive and a dvd rom drive, normally lettered E: and D:
When I originally installed the OS everything was as it should be.
Recently, the D: and E: drives disappeared, and I don't know what event if any caused this. Therefore, one cannot use either drive at all. Mechanically, they still work of course.
During POST, both drives are represented correctly.
Within Windows, in the hardware profile section, both drives are mentioned but with the yellow questionmark icon. Closer examination says that they are not working properly. After uninstalling and rebooting, Windows detects the hardware but states that one or more drivers is missing or currupt and back to square one.
I decided to re-install XP. Booted up from CD and ran the setup. That was a mistake because when it went to the windows portion of setup it couldnt read from the CD. I tried to copy the contents of the XP cd to the hard drive but the copy command on the recovery console will not let you move directories only single files. Now windows is stuck in trying to complete a setup and the PC is totally unusable now because of that.
So, how can I recover this installation? Any imput would be welcome and thanks in advance.
When I originally installed the OS everything was as it should be.
Recently, the D: and E: drives disappeared, and I don't know what event if any caused this. Therefore, one cannot use either drive at all. Mechanically, they still work of course.
During POST, both drives are represented correctly.
Within Windows, in the hardware profile section, both drives are mentioned but with the yellow questionmark icon. Closer examination says that they are not working properly. After uninstalling and rebooting, Windows detects the hardware but states that one or more drivers is missing or currupt and back to square one.
I decided to re-install XP. Booted up from CD and ran the setup. That was a mistake because when it went to the windows portion of setup it couldnt read from the CD. I tried to copy the contents of the XP cd to the hard drive but the copy command on the recovery console will not let you move directories only single files. Now windows is stuck in trying to complete a setup and the PC is totally unusable now because of that.
So, how can I recover this installation? Any imput would be welcome and thanks in advance.