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neilm86 · 11-20-2008, 06:00 AM

Hi, 1st poster here! :D

I have a problem and its driving me INSAAAANNNEEEEE

I want to reformat my hdd and to do this I need to use my Vista cd.

My DVD drive isn't working. When i insert the Vista CD nothing happens, no autorun. When i right click and go to explore it ejects the disk and sais please enter a disk. When I double click the drive icon it says D:/Application Not Found. When i change boot settings to boot from DVD drive nothing happens it tries to read it for a while then skips past and loads via HDD.

If i put a game cd in the same thing happens, yet, when i load the game via desktop shortcut the game loads and plays fine so the DVD drive is obviously still reading the disk (the game cannot play without the CD)

This appears to be a common problem as ive scoured forums throughout google but i have found no solutions.

So, I am looking for help to fix the problem or reformat via a USB Drive. My motherboard allows to boot via USB so getting a Vista recovery disk onto USB could be an option.

Any help is greatly appreciated!

Thanks
Neil

11-20-2008, 06:00 AM	#1 (permalink)
neilm86 Registered User Join Date: Nov 2008 Posts: 2 OS: Windows Vista	D:/ Application Not Found Hi, 1st poster here! :D I have a problem and its driving me INSAAAANNNEEEEE I want to reformat my hdd and to do this I need to use my Vista cd. My DVD drive isn't working. When i insert the Vista CD nothing happens, no autorun. When i right click and go to explore it ejects the disk and sais please enter a disk. When I double click the drive icon it says D:/Application Not Found. When i change boot settings to boot from DVD drive nothing happens it tries to read it for a while then skips past and loads via HDD. If i put a game cd in the same thing happens, yet, when i load the game via desktop shortcut the game loads and plays fine so the DVD drive is obviously still reading the disk (the game cannot play without the CD) This appears to be a common problem as ive scoured forums throughout google but i have found no solutions. So, I am looking for help to fix the problem or reformat via a USB Drive. My motherboard allows to boot via USB so getting a Vista recovery disk onto USB could be an option. Any help is greatly appreciated! Thanks Neil