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CDROM Installer cannot load. Contact Hardware Vendor.. error message in Win2000 Pro
I have upgraded to Win2000 Pro and my Cdrom drives work fine but every time I boot up I receive an error message after signing on as administrator it device manager or something looks for my cdrom and dvdrom drives and then says unable to load CDROM installer contact harware vendor. After this message a Hardware driver wizard looks for a driver but does not find a solution. Please help in a solution for me and maybe others. Thanks
Name: kamel Date: June 13, 2000 at 05:20:20 Pacific
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type at start\run "sysedit" then 1.erase at c:\config.sys the driver of the cdrom for example driver=c:\cdrom /v 2.erase at autoexec this line c:\dos\mscdex.exe or c:\windows\comand\mscdex save setting and reboot
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