Tiberiuus

Thanx for the info...


I believe I have corrected the problem, but I have one more hurdle to cross before I am finished.

After searching for hours upon hours I discovered this seems to be an inherent problem with this model cd drive. Anywhere I looked ppl discussed the problem but I discovered no resolution.

In the end what I did was dismantle the laptop and made sure to disconnect the disk drive and floppy drive (floppy wasnt working either). After reassembly drive was reading both cds and dvds. Also floppy was now functioning.

Now my problem is as follows...
Computer wont boot from cd. I have set the boot order up correctly and the computer will boot from the floppy just not the cd drive.

What I want to do is install a fresh copy of XP. I can do a repair installation or upgrade fine.

Does anyone know how I can remedy the drive "or" know of a roundabout way to do the install? I have xp home and pro disk I just cant get them to boot at startup.