Teac 244E CD-ROM drive, disappears during XP install Monday, October 5, 2009 at 1:56 am Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by Jason Arthurs (1 messages posted) I have been given an ancient laptop which I've been trying to install Windows XP on for a few days now. I finally realised what the problem was, the CD-ROM drive disappears during the install process. The machine boots from CD, goes all through the install process and after entering your key and selecting your international settings it goes into the '39 minutes countdown' and begins to ask for files in D:/i386 (the missing CD-ROM drive). I've got around this by copying the files to a USB key and installing from there instead. However once the install is complete I have a fully working XP system, but *NO CD-ROM* listed. I have the floppy drive and the hard disk but no entry for a CD-ROM. It's a Teac 244E in-built 24x CD-ROM drive and works fine under Linux but for some reason fails miserably under XP. Help! Jason. Responses to this message: re: Teac 244E CD-ROM drive, disappears during XP install (Kevinh: Monday, October 5, 2009 at 4:50 am) All messages in this thread [show all] Teac 244E CD-ROM drive, disappears during XP install (Jason Arthurs: Mon, Oct 5, 2009, 1:56 am) re: Teac 244E CD-ROM drive, disappears during XP install (Kevinh: Mon, Oct 5, 2009, 4:50 am) re: Teac 244E CD-ROM drive, disappears during XP install (Ricer46: Mon, Oct 5, 2009, 7:05 am) 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