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Compaq Presario new hd no cd or dvd
The hd that came with my prsarios is toast. I popped in my home hd with
windows xp pro on it. Everything works fine except the disk drives don't work. Have been looking for drivers etc. with no luck. How do you get those drives to work? Thanks John |
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If a second hard drive does not work, one possibility is that the motherboard is
bad. However, keep in mind that BY DESIGN, Micro$oft does not make it easy to switch hard drives with XP from one system to another. With XP, no drivers are required for hard drive or CD-ROM drive. As a test, I suggest that you download a Windows 98(!) boot floppy image from www.bootdisk.com , create the floppy, and boot the system with the floppy. Then simply run the FDISK program. If FDISK sees the hard drive and CD-ROM drive, then you at least know that the hardware is somewhat OK. If the hardware seems OK, replace the hard drive, but not with another pulled from a different system. Then reinstall Windows... Ben Myers On Sat, 21 Jan 2006 04:22:02 GMT, John wrote: The hd that came with my prsarios is toast. I popped in my home hd with windows xp pro on it. Everything works fine except the disk drives don't work. Have been looking for drivers etc. with no luck. How do you get those drives to work? Thanks John |
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Ben Myers wrote:
If a second hard drive does not work, one possibility is that the motherboard is bad. However, keep in mind that BY DESIGN, Micro$oft does not make it easy to switch hard drives with XP from one system to another. With XP, no drivers are required for hard drive or CD-ROM drive. As a test, I suggest that you download a Windows 98(!) boot floppy image from www.bootdisk.com , create the floppy, and boot the system with the floppy. Then simply run the FDISK program. If FDISK sees the hard drive and CD-ROM drive, then you at least know that the hardware is somewhat OK. Except, fdsisk does not see CD drives, only hard disks. However, as the floppy boots you should be able to see the CD drives get their drive letters assigned. This would mean the drivers installed and there was communication with the drives. (This assumes your hardware matches what the drivers on the floppy support.) If the hardware seems OK, replace the hard drive, but not with another pulled from a different system. Then reinstall Windows... Ben Myers On Sat, 21 Jan 2006 04:22:02 GMT, John wrote: The hd that came with my prsarios is toast. I popped in my home hd with windows xp pro on it. Everything works fine except the disk drives don't work. Have been looking for drivers etc. with no luck. How do you get those drives to work? Thanks John |
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XP sees the drives ok... they just have the little yellow exclamation
point and it says it can't find the device drivers for both of them. It says the driver is corrupted or missing. I think it is some sort of Compaq/HP proprietary thing. I think the plug&play system is screwed up too. Compaq just doesn't want you to load a new xp system on thier computers I guess. John Ben Myers wrote: If a second hard drive does not work, one possibility is that the motherboard is bad. However, keep in mind that BY DESIGN, Micro$oft does not make it easy to switch hard drives with XP from one system to another. With XP, no drivers are required for hard drive or CD-ROM drive. As a test, I suggest that you download a Windows 98(!) boot floppy image from www.bootdisk.com , create the floppy, and boot the system with the floppy. Then simply run the FDISK program. If FDISK sees the hard drive and CD-ROM drive, then you at least know that the hardware is somewhat OK. If the hardware seems OK, replace the hard drive, but not with another pulled from a different system. Then reinstall Windows... Ben Myers On Sat, 21 Jan 2006 04:22:02 GMT, John wrote: The hd that came with my prsarios is toast. I popped in my home hd with windows xp pro on it. Everything works fine except the disk drives don't work. Have been looking for drivers etc. with no luck. How do you get those drives to work? Thanks John |
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Compaq Presario new hd no cd or dvd
John wrote:
XP sees the drives ok... they just have the little yellow exclamation point and it says it can't find the device drivers for both of them. It says the driver is corrupted or missing. I think it is some sort of Compaq/HP proprietary thing. I think the plug&play system is screwed up too. Compaq just doesn't want you to load a new xp system on thier computers I guess. John How about describing the system so we know what you are talking about? |
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Compaq Presario new hd no cd or dvd
craigm wrote:
John wrote: XP sees the drives ok... they just have the little yellow exclamation point and it says it can't find the device drivers for both of them. It says the driver is corrupted or missing. I think it is some sort of Compaq/HP proprietary thing. I think the plug&play system is screwed up too. Compaq just doesn't want you to load a new xp system on thier computers I guess. John How about describing the system so we know what you are talking about? Compaq Presario 061 PJ518AA-ABA SR1230NX NA440 0nB1411CO101KELUT00 Board: ASUSTek Computer INC. Kelut 2.02 Bus Clock: 200 megahertz BIOS: Phoenix Technologies, LTD 3.11 09/02/2004 2.20 gigahertz AMD Athlon XP 128 kilobyte primary memory cache 512 kilobyte secondary memory cache 512 mb mem ASUS CD-S480/AH [CD-ROM drive] LITE-ON DVDRW SOHW-832S [CD-ROM drive] Windows XP Professional Service Pack 2 (build 2600) John |
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Compaq Presario new hd no cd or dvd
craigm wrote:
John wrote: XP sees the drives ok... they just have the little yellow exclamation point and it says it can't find the device drivers for both of them. It says the driver is corrupted or missing. I think it is some sort of Compaq/HP proprietary thing. I think the plug&play system is screwed up too. Compaq just doesn't want you to load a new xp system on thier computers I guess. John How about describing the system so we know what you are talking about? I did a correcting re-install of xp and that fixed it. Nothing else worked. John |
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Compaq Presario new hd no cd or dvd
No. A Windows 98 install floppy will see the CD- and DVD-ROM drives via a
device driver in CONFIG.SYS and MSCDEX.EXE in autoexec.bat. This provides a conveniently quick, but imperfect check as to whether the drives can be seen or not... Ben Myers On Sat, 21 Jan 2006 09:20:35 -0600, craigm wrote: Ben Myers wrote: If a second hard drive does not work, one possibility is that the motherboard is bad. However, keep in mind that BY DESIGN, Micro$oft does not make it easy to switch hard drives with XP from one system to another. With XP, no drivers are required for hard drive or CD-ROM drive. As a test, I suggest that you download a Windows 98(!) boot floppy image from www.bootdisk.com , create the floppy, and boot the system with the floppy. Then simply run the FDISK program. If FDISK sees the hard drive and CD-ROM drive, then you at least know that the hardware is somewhat OK. Except, fdsisk does not see CD drives, only hard disks. However, as the floppy boots you should be able to see the CD drives get their drive letters assigned. This would mean the drivers installed and there was communication with the drives. (This assumes your hardware matches what the drivers on the floppy support.) If the hardware seems OK, replace the hard drive, but not with another pulled from a different system. Then reinstall Windows... Ben Myers On Sat, 21 Jan 2006 04:22:02 GMT, John wrote: The hd that came with my prsarios is toast. I popped in my home hd with windows xp pro on it. Everything works fine except the disk drives don't work. Have been looking for drivers etc. with no luck. How do you get those drives to work? Thanks John |
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No. If you moved the hard drive from one system to another, the chipsets on the
motherboard are very likely different. For example, if the disk drive came from an AMD system and went into an Intel system, drivers for the VIA Apollo chipset cannot be expected to work correctly with an Intel 800 or 900 series chipset. The symptoms you've describe are EXACTLY what I would expect to see if the motherboard chipsets were different as described above. Once again, this is INTENTIONAL by design by Micro$oft who would rather soak you anywhere from $90 to $200 for yet another copy of Windows... Ben Myers On Sat, 21 Jan 2006 15:22:05 GMT, John wrote: XP sees the drives ok... they just have the little yellow exclamation point and it says it can't find the device drivers for both of them. It says the driver is corrupted or missing. I think it is some sort of Compaq/HP proprietary thing. I think the plug&play system is screwed up too. Compaq just doesn't want you to load a new xp system on thier computers I guess. John Ben Myers wrote: If a second hard drive does not work, one possibility is that the motherboard is bad. However, keep in mind that BY DESIGN, Micro$oft does not make it easy to switch hard drives with XP from one system to another. With XP, no drivers are required for hard drive or CD-ROM drive. As a test, I suggest that you download a Windows 98(!) boot floppy image from www.bootdisk.com , create the floppy, and boot the system with the floppy. Then simply run the FDISK program. If FDISK sees the hard drive and CD-ROM drive, then you at least know that the hardware is somewhat OK. If the hardware seems OK, replace the hard drive, but not with another pulled from a different system. Then reinstall Windows... Ben Myers On Sat, 21 Jan 2006 04:22:02 GMT, John wrote: The hd that came with my prsarios is toast. I popped in my home hd with windows xp pro on it. Everything works fine except the disk drives don't work. Have been looking for drivers etc. with no luck. How do you get those drives to work? Thanks John |
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Compaq Presario new hd no cd or dvd
Of course. See my other response for a brief explanation why... Ben Myers
On Sat, 21 Jan 2006 20:53:47 GMT, John wrote: craigm wrote: John wrote: XP sees the drives ok... they just have the little yellow exclamation point and it says it can't find the device drivers for both of them. It says the driver is corrupted or missing. I think it is some sort of Compaq/HP proprietary thing. I think the plug&play system is screwed up too. Compaq just doesn't want you to load a new xp system on thier computers I guess. John How about describing the system so we know what you are talking about? I did a correcting re-install of xp and that fixed it. Nothing else worked. John |
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