Probs With Windows XP Installation

Factual Questions
1

My CD-ROM and CD burner have been rendered unusable when I installed XP. My Computer doesn’t even recognize the drives.

Any Ideas?

I was running W98SE on a 500 Mhz, Athlon K-6 with 384 megs of RAM.

Thanks

Quasi

2

Option 1

Re-install the original operating system and try again

Option 2

Call Microserf

I had probs intalling XP and after a 2 hour call to Tech support, I ended up with a new OS. There goes the MS profit margin.

3

Is this the home version?

4

I had a similar problem after installing XP on our family computer. For a couple days after installation, everything was fine, and then PFFT! No more DVD or CD-RW.

After several weeks of trying everything we can think of, we finally sucked it up and just reinstalled. Fixed it right up.

5

Yep, putting the old OS back on does the trick, mostly because XP is no compatible with a lot of stuff. But if you try the cdrom manf site they might have an XP update.

In the future, you might consider making a dual boot, XP & your old OS. Xp should ask you if you want to do that & create the system for you.