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Teac 244E CD-ROM drive, disappears during XP install
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Teac 244E CD-ROM drive, disappears during XP install
Monday, October 5, 2009 at 1:56 am
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.
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re: Teac 244E CD-ROM drive, disappears during XP install
Monday, October 5, 2009 at 4:50 am
Posted by Kevinh
(634 messages posted)
If your laptop is "ancient" have you checked that it is capable of running XP. Have
you tried the TEAC site for the XP drivers for your CD ROM.?
On Monday, October 5, 2009 at 1:56 am, Jason Arthurs wrote:
>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.
>
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re: Teac 244E CD-ROM drive, disappears during XP install
Monday, October 5, 2009 at 7:05 am
Posted by Ricer46
(23825 messages posted)
CDROMs don't need drivers. However disk drive interfaces do, he needs to check on
the laptop manufacturer's web page, for all of the mobo drivers. And again there
may not be any.
On Monday, October 5, 2009 at 4:50 am, Kevinh wrote:
>If your laptop is "ancient" have you checked that it is capable of running XP.
Have
>you tried the TEAC site for the XP drivers for your CD ROM.?
>
>
>
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