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[Dagless M.D.]

I'm attempting a Windows installation at the moment on a formatted hard disk, and coming up with this error message:

Some files on Windows XP Home Edition CD-ROM are needed.

Insert Windows XP Home Edition CD-ROM into the drive selected below, and then click OK.

followed by a drive selection box. The problem is, the selection box won't accept the drive letter D:\ (the drive in which the disc is inserted) and when I click Browse and attempt to access it that way, is claims that the drive does not exist. The thing is that the drive does exist and is properly connected, the installation up until this point has been running off it.

Has this happened to anyone else, would anyone be able to suggest anything?

 

[DJ Sl4m]

Try changing the drive jumper settings, if it's CS change it to master or vice versa.

This happened to me recently on a PC I was working on for a friend.

 

[DaCocoBrova]

This doesn't make sense to me. How'd you get that far in the install without the optical drive working in the first place?

 

[DJ Sl4m]

This doesn't make sense to me. How'd you get that far in the install without the optical drive working in the first place?

That's the Microsoft difference baby....yeah!!

 

[Dagless M.D.]

This doesn't make sense to me. How'd you get that far in the install without the optical drive working in the first place?

The drive does work when starting the installation, but halfway through windows deicdes that only the hard drive and the floppy drive exist

 

[maharg]

This is one reason why, imo, you should always copy the files over to the harddrive before installing if you can. That means you have to format your drive to FAT first, though, which sucks if you intend to do NTFS.

NT has never cared about where the files are coming from. It just cares that it has access to all of the 'i386' directory as it goes. Copy that to the hard drive somewhere and run the setup program from it.

Once it's installed, you can troubleshoot stuff like this in a full environment.