Re: Lost External CD ROM Drive upgrading from 2000 to XP

Posted: 07-01-2003, 01:59 PM

Bill Frisbee $Windows MVP$

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What kind of connection does the device have (USB? Serial? LPT?).

More than likely when in it's initialization stages XP cannot see the drive.
How was W2k installed?

Bill F. (Windows Setup MVP)

"Don Williams" <donwilliams@fwi.com> wrote in message
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> I have a HP e-Vectra machine that uses an external CD-Rom
> drive. When I tried to upgrade from 2000 to XP, on the
> restart, XP does not see the CD-Rom drive and therefore
> the installation cannot continue. Any ideas?

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