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Thread ID: 12970	2001-11-17 07:36:00	No CD drive access, no Control Panel	Guest (0)	Press F1

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24739	2001-11-17 07:36:00	That briefly desscribes the most serious faults in the state of my Windows Me System following an upgrade to XP and, when that proved unstable, omn Microsoft helpdesk's advice a wind-back to my former OS, Windows Me. The CD drive shows up on MyComputer/Windows Explorer, but as soon as I put a CD-ROM or CD-R in the drive, it blue screens. So no chance of 'rescuing' or reconstructing the OS the normal way. I was then told: make a rescue disk on floppy, boot up in DOS and see if a CD is accessible from there; then I should be able to launch a rescue attempt or rebuild the OS. All very fine IF I had a Control Panel! But the CP window is a complete blank. The highly knowledgeable man at The PC Company said 'just bring up the DOS prompt, and type 'sys a:' No, that doesn't work either; I'm told 'you can only sys drive C; to create a bootable disk use Add/Remove Programs in Control Panel. So it seems I am stuck with no way out. Windows Me functions basically, but I naturally want the full funtion back, particularly the use of the writable CD drive I paid for! At this point a technically knowledgeable associate says: 'nothing for it; back up everything, Fdisk or format and do a clean install of XP.' To which I reply; 'back up everything to WHAT?' I don't have any writable removable media any more. Anyone have any ideas where I go from here - preferably without losing all my files and applications!? Steve B.	Guest (0)
24740	2001-11-17 11:07:00	connect your hard drive (set as slave) to a friend's pc & copy your data to his drive. reformat, reinstall & copy back data. it's a hassle, but hey i have to do this for a lot of jobs & it works.	Guest (0)
24741	2001-11-20 04:16:00	You can download the dosboot disk just search for it. As for PC Vendors... they are more interested in selling you a computer than supporting it. I know I deal with all their complaints when the companies don't help	Guest (0)
24742	2001-11-23 03:55:00	Try powering up holding the Ctrl key down. On one PC Company box with ME, the recovery software I started with the restart floppy told me this was the alternative way to access it. (To use the restart floppy, I had to change the BIOS settings: it was set to not boot from the floppy, and then had to change the search order to put the floppy first). You WILL make a restart disk when you get it going again, won't you?	Guest (0)
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