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D:\ is not valid win 32 application

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Name: Simo M
Date: September 17, 2004 at 03:21:56 Pacific
OS: winxp pro
CPU/Ram: P4 3.2GHz/ 512 MB
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Hi all,

My setup that I'm bulding is an asus P5GDC Mobo,P4 3.2 GHz, 512 MB, 2x 120 Gb SATA RAID O,pioneer dvr-108.
I successfully installed winxp pro after a couple of attempts, however when I tried to install other drivers/software I get a dreaded D:\ is not a valid win 32 application message. I can't seem to get anything to work with the dvdrom, help this computer is driving me nuts. Any thoughts/suggestions would be appreciated

simon



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Response Number 1
Name: Richard59
Date: September 17, 2004 at 03:27:51 Pacific
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What and how are you trying to instal? If XP is loaded then just put whatever driver disk you have in the drive and use windows explorer to navigate. If you are running command (Start>run>cmd) then I believe the correct navigation parameter would use a "/" rather than "\"

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Response Number 2
Name: Simo M
Date: September 17, 2004 at 03:35:03 Pacific
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I'm trying to install video card/sound/usb drivers using the dvd drive but nothing seems to happen, the autorun seem to be disabled.

simon


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Name: Richard59
Date: September 17, 2004 at 03:49:03 Pacific
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Sorry My Bad. With a disk in the drive you should be able to navigate in command console by the following:
cd d:\

I've been trying myself but for some reason I cannot get to the E:\> prompt. (In my case my DVD drive is E)
I can navigate to the root of C but it will not switch to any other drive. If there is no disk in the drive I get an error message that says "the device is not ready"
With a disk in the drive the command just doesn't work. It reverts back to the C:\> without giving an error.


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Response Number 4
Name: Richard59
Date: September 17, 2004 at 03:52:07 Pacific
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Is the drive recognised in devicemanager? Any yellow ?marks
When you open "My Computer" is the dvd drive there? What happens if you doubleclick it?

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Response Number 5
Name: Simo M
Date: September 17, 2004 at 04:02:48 Pacific
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Yes,the drive is registering the devicemanager. When I have a disc in the drive the drive can read the contents of the disc but when I doubleclick an icon of the contents then I get the message 'D:\ is not not valid win 32 application'. The other observation is discs that have an autorun function do not work (no autorun).

simon


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Response Number 6
Name: Mechanix2Go
Date: September 17, 2004 at 04:07:53 Pacific
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typing cd e:\ changes the directory

if you want to change to the e drive, type

e:

[return]



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Response Number 7
Name: elchuk
Date: October 17, 2004 at 05:28:58 Pacific
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Trade in your Pioneer DVD for another brand. The problem is with the DVD drive.


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