Maybe it's not installed into windows, or whatever system, with a "driver." That is a program you can get off the internet that tells your computer how to operate that device.
Once installed, a restart and going into bios setup, you should find it in boot priority under the boot tab. If installed it should be there and you set it to top priority and save with f10 and exit. It will reboot and look first in the cd rom for an operating system.
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please try to remove the connection between motherboard and vd/dvd drive.
then perform the previous steps.
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this may or may not help, try taking out the cmos battery out (looks like a watch battery) and leave for a few minutes then replace, this will reset the bios.
SOURCE: cant install xp to dell c400 with external cd-rom
This is how I did it, you may or may not have the ability. A basic knowledge of Dos is necessary 1) I used another laptop but you could use an adapter to use the hard drive in a regular computer. 2)boot with a windows 98 boot disk, fdisk it to a fat32 partition, make the hard drive a system boot disk (format /s c:) 3) copy the i386 folder and all its contents from a full or full oem (not branded) disk to the laptop drive, also copy smartdrv and highmem.sys from the floppy (speeds thing up dramatically) and create a config.sys file with device=highmem.sys 4)physically install the hard drive back into the C400, boot to dos run smartdrv.exe, then go to the i386 folder and type winnt.exe (enter) wooo should work. MusslaChooda Pakichooda Nathuram Godse
SOURCE: Dell Optiplex GX50 won't load windows OS
Which cdrom is it? Is it a windows XP cd? This is an older PC? Does it have a floppy disk drive? Try downloading from Barts a bootable floppy disk, set boot order to floppy in BIOS, change to cdrom drive letter after booting to floppy (D:?)
got to I386 folder and set up from there.
More info would be helpful.
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No that's not the case because I've tried 3 different external CD/DVD roms and none of them can be detected on Bios. And the machine does not have an OS yet, that's why I want to do a fresh installation of windows.
This may not be solution but might help. In my bios screen I have a Advanced Tab, I have a USB configuration listed. Highlight using arrow keys and press enter. There I have three things, Legacy USB (enabled), USB 2.0 (enabled), and USB Zip (HARD DISK) specified, highlight any of those to change to enabled if not so listed. In Boot Tab I see: Boot Device Priority, Hard Disk device, Removable drives, Atapi CD roms (among other stuff). I think if you boot with windows disk in the USB external cd rom, that the bios might show the drive in either removable drives or Atapi CD roms sub areas. If recognizes CD disk there in the drive, then it may show also in Boot Priority. Don't think it would show up without a disk in it. Presume you are using XP cd and that would be a bootable cd. I have loaded Puppy LInux on a USB flash drive on my machine setup the way it is and found it a great system that runs flash video great and firefox 4.0 which you might consider. You can get those on ebay or download to another computer following instructions etc. Hope that helps.
Thinking if you set the USB zip to "attapi cd rom" that would be better than set to hard disk. In the old windows machines we didn't have all these options but ran usb from windows only or dos maybe, still learning myself.
Hi there
When you mentioned flash drives it clicked on my mind and immediately searched for a software that can make a bootable flash drive and I booted off it and its seem to be working OK. The machine can boot from a flash drive, and I'm busy right now installing windows xp on it.
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I'll also give you detailed info on my progress with my optiplex sx260.
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