Anonymous Posted on Jun 05, 2009

Acer M 5640 clean instalation of windows vista

Acer M 5640 desktop clean instalation of windows vista ultimate from original disc. Disc starts booting,however when gets to the screen after select language and install an error says "A required CD/DVD drive device is missing".
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J.K.

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