re: CD drive not working Wednesday, September 17, 2008 at 1:21 pm Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by Ricer46 (20219 messages posted) It sounds like your internal drive has "bit the dust." Not all computers support booting from an external CD, does yours? On Wednesday, September 17, 2008 at 6:02 am, sqs103 wrote: >I tried the following: I shut down the computer. Put the windows xp cd in the dvd/cd-rw >drive and tried to boot the computer. >While booting (BIOS ensures that the computer boots the cd drive first) the computer >tried to access the cd drive but failed. After a while it gave up. >I then disabled the cd drive in device manager and connected the external cd burner. >Its showing up as F drive. Then I put the xp install cd in the external burner and >tried to boot the computer. This time, the computer kept giving the message: please >insert the restore disc and press any key. Each time I kept hitting a key, the same >message kept coming back. >I am using the restore disc given by fujitsu. Written in response to: re: CD drive not working (sqs103: Wednesday, September 17, 2008 at 6:02 am) Responses to this message: re: CD drive not working (sqs103: Wednesday, September 17, 2008 at 10:20 pm) All messages in this thread [show all] CD drive not working (sqs103: Tue, Sep 16, 2008, 10:35 pm) re: CD drive not working (Steve Dunn: Wed, Sep 17, 2008, 3:03 am) re: CD drive not working (sqs103: Wed, Sep 17, 2008, 3:22 am) re: CD drive not working (Steve Dunn: Wed, Sep 17, 2008, 3:32 am) re: CD drive not working (Ricer46: Wed, Sep 17, 2008, 4:40 am) re: CD drive not working (sqs103: Wed, Sep 17, 2008, 6:02 am) re: CD drive not working (Ricer46: Wed, Sep 17, 2008, 1:21 pm) re: CD drive not working (sqs103: Wed, Sep 17, 2008, 10:20 pm) Reply or follow-up to this message Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows XP Discussion Forum