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  • #16
    OK then. What you have to do is make a boot floppy with the Oak Ridge CD-ROM driver on it. That will let you boot up DOS and start the CD-ROM from there.

    This is easier said then done - I'm off to google some tutorials for you. You might try looking yourself...
    Some cry `Allah O Akbar` in the street. And some carry Allah in their heart.
    "The CIA does nothing, says nothing, allows nothing, unless its own interests are served. They are the biggest assembly of liars and theives this country ever put under one roof and they are an abomination" Deputy COS (Intel) US Army 1981-84

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    • #17
      Most likely a driver problem, but you could check and see if the cable from the drive to the controller is loose at all.
      "I read a book twice as fast as anybody else. First, I read the beginning, and then I read the ending, and then I start in the middle and read toward whatever end I like best." - Gracie Allen

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      • #18
        check out www.bootdisk.com

        I bet you can burn bootdisk. Oh wait.. it wasn't working.. damn it.
        In da butt.
        "Do not worry if others do not understand you. Instead worry if you do not understand others." - Confucius
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        • #19
          thank you people *hug*

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          • #20
            What was the problem? Don't tell me it was the cable being loose?
            In da butt.
            "Do not worry if others do not understand you. Instead worry if you do not understand others." - Confucius
            THE UNDEFEATED SUPERCITIZEN w:4 t:2 l:1 (DON'T ASK!)
            "God is dead" - Nietzsche. "Nietzsche is dead" - God.

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            • #21
              Well, for Win 98 the procedure is to go My Computer > Control Panel > Add/Remove Programs > Startup Disk > Create Disk...

              Doubt if 2000 is the same - but the Startup disk is definitely what you need.
              Some cry `Allah O Akbar` in the street. And some carry Allah in their heart.
              "The CIA does nothing, says nothing, allows nothing, unless its own interests are served. They are the biggest assembly of liars and theives this country ever put under one roof and they are an abomination" Deputy COS (Intel) US Army 1981-84

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              • #22
                Hooray! Happy Siro.
                Some cry `Allah O Akbar` in the street. And some carry Allah in their heart.
                "The CIA does nothing, says nothing, allows nothing, unless its own interests are served. They are the biggest assembly of liars and theives this country ever put under one roof and they are an abomination" Deputy COS (Intel) US Army 1981-84

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                • #23
                  I didn't say I solved it.

                  Only that I appriciate your effort

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                  • #24
                    I'm not sure the win2k bootdisk can access the CD.

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                    • #25
                      Originally posted by Sirotnikov
                      Pekka - I have one 40GB drive, and 2 partitions. 1 is 7.5 GB NTFS and that is where the system and program files are.

                      The other is 33GB for my sh*t.
                      Wouldn't one of your partitions be the d: then?
                      And your cd be e:
                      I'm building a wagon! On some other part of the internets, obviously (but not that other site).

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                      • #26
                        That's a valid point Skanky. Siro's been silent for a couple of hours now - either his PC his down, he's been ordered to bed, or it's worked and he's off somewhere else.

                        Best hopes Siro.
                        Some cry `Allah O Akbar` in the street. And some carry Allah in their heart.
                        "The CIA does nothing, says nothing, allows nothing, unless its own interests are served. They are the biggest assembly of liars and theives this country ever put under one roof and they are an abomination" Deputy COS (Intel) US Army 1981-84

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                        • #27
                          Even if you've installed the CD after you set up your HD?

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                          • #28
                            "DOS? What's DOS? I don't play DOS! woohooo! more disk space!"
                            To us, it is the BEAST.

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                            • #29
                              Unless you set your cd drive to only ever be d:, windows will move it up a letter should you add harddrives.

                              Sava
                              I'm building a wagon! On some other part of the internets, obviously (but not that other site).

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                              • #30
                                Originally posted by Sava
                                "DOS? What's DOS? I don't play DOS! woohooo! more disk space!"
                                DOS/Windows whatever, i let the system assign its own drive lettters unless i have a VERY good reason not to

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