First Win7 Bummer
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code-frog wrote:
I mean... they installation package had the stuff to make the CD work...
Yep, really strange - unless my drive finally bought it. It hasn't been able to write, or even recognize a blank disk for months, but reading has always been fine, and it was exactly after Win7 that it stopped.
Have you tried booting from a CD? The OS can't mess with that so you can do a hardware test easily. You may need to do BIOS black magic to make it try the CD 1st.
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Look man, don't make me do something you'll regret :D
print "http://www.codeproject.com".toURL().text Ain't that Groovy?
I already have: you replied.
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I already have: you replied.
RIGHT. Well we'll just see about that! Just remember, you brought all this on yourself! ;)
print "http://www.codeproject.com".toURL().text Ain't that Groovy?
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RIGHT. Well we'll just see about that! Just remember, you brought all this on yourself! ;)
print "http://www.codeproject.com".toURL().text Ain't that Groovy?
Hey! I have to amuse myself somehow: I'm still in my office re-installing at 12h20.
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Hey! I have to amuse myself somehow: I'm still in my office re-installing at 12h20.
Well me too :) (except for the being at work, it being 12h20 and installing stuff) :)
print "http://www.codeproject.com".toURL().text Ain't that Groovy?
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Windows 7 is a pleasure to behold and use. Having said that, the bugger broke my CDROM, :mad: so it was the last thing I could install from disk. Now I have to read each install disk on my - still un-networked - laptop and transfer it to the desktop via flash drive. :mad:
get your floppies out!
Levi Rosol Blog By Levi[^]
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Windows 7 is a pleasure to behold and use. Having said that, the bugger broke my CDROM, :mad: so it was the last thing I could install from disk. Now I have to read each install disk on my - still un-networked - laptop and transfer it to the desktop via flash drive. :mad:
Brady Kelly wrote:
Having said that, the bugger broke my CDROM
That's a feature, not a bug. So you can't install anything else but what Microsoft ships with W7. Marc
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Windows 7 is a pleasure to behold and use. Having said that, the bugger broke my CDROM, :mad: so it was the last thing I could install from disk. Now I have to read each install disk on my - still un-networked - laptop and transfer it to the desktop via flash drive. :mad:
Have you installed any ISO mounting software like DaemonTools? I've found that can bugger with you hard drives/ cd-rom drives.
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Windows 7 is a pleasure to behold and use. Having said that, the bugger broke my CDROM, :mad: so it was the last thing I could install from disk. Now I have to read each install disk on my - still un-networked - laptop and transfer it to the desktop via flash drive. :mad:
BETA: Bugs Expected To Appear
Christopher Duncan Author of The Career Programmer and Unite the Tribes www.PracticalUSA.com
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Yeah usually it's the video or sound card that decides to get ornery. The CDROM surprises me as it's kind of a core/critical bit. I mean... they installation package had the stuff to make the CD work...
I had a machine that would always do this when installing NT4. It would install fine from the CD but then wouldn't recognise the CD drive when the OS was installed. Always had to install the cd driver from a floppy and then the thing was happy to work.