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Here goes a challenge for all the xperts in this forum. I must confess i'm not an expert so i appeal to all of you to help me in this challenge. Here it goes:
Imagine that you have a laptop with a pentium 4 processor, 40 gb, and 256mb ram. And you want to format and install winxp on it. So far it's very simple, but here goes the problem, the cdrom drive is dead and it will only read dvd's.
I'll appreciate any answers to this little challenge.
Burn the contents of the cd to a dvd, your basically screwed if it wont read the cd, you can only get so far with boot flopies. That or buy a new cd drive for you laptop.
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I've never done this, but I don't see why it wouldn't work.
Take your legal disk of XP and copy/burn it to a DVD disk using a DVD burner, then install XP from the DVD. Once on your harddrive, XP doesnt' care how it got there.
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I've never heard of being able to bypass the copy protection system inherent on WinXP CD's that woul allow you to "copy" it's contents to another CD medium.
That just sounds to me like if it could be done, then why have the level of encryption burned on the original XP cd's?
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Pierre,
Quit being naive, you can copy almost any media these days...even console games.
But it miffs me that it will read DVD's and not cd's mmhhhnn.
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Yeah xp cd's can simply be done by copying the contents to your desktop then burning. Yeah sabertooth i also was confused as to why it reads dvds and not cd's, surely if it wont read one it wont read the other.
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sabertooth, i'm very surprised too about this phenomenon about my cd/dvd rom drive, but it's true, i can read every dvd i've got but i can't make it read a cd, i've cleaned the unit, i've updated the firmware and nothing happengs, the cd spins forever and it's never read. I wanna know if there exists any software that mount iso images in dos.
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Forget mounting cdrom images from DOS, you will not get anywhere with that. Since it is a combo drive may be the cd read lens is dirty or defective.
Try an optical drive cleaner..(long shot), another thing to do to isolate the issue is to boot into DOS using a '98 bootdisk..(start with CDROM support) change to the cd/dvd drive letter, and browse both a cd and a DVD using the dir command.
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mount the files under i386 either locally or on a lan shared directory. Boot and run win(something)32. I think it is on the MS site on how to, and posted on computing.net in a few places.
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combo drives have to have 2 different lasers in them, one for cd-rom data, and a different one for dvd.
the cd half is busted, trash it and get a new one, it will cost more to fix than a new one.
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Make a bridge with another CPU and install from there. LAN or LPT will do. Or like Rick said buy a new one.
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