Recent content by kwydjibo

Hello all. I replaced the ide dvd burner with a newer one and it sees the disc just fine, booted, installed and is working great. For whatever reason, the drive didn't like the 64bit edition disc. talk about a frustrating frustrating problem though. thanks everybody who offered ideas =) best...

i am making this post via a Ubuntu 64 bit live cd. borrowing a dvd might be an option in order to pursue the one variable i havent been able to eliminate: the dvd drive (which has the latest firmware, 2.1a was the newest i could find, and already had). i'll start asking people to borrow their...

motherboard: MCP6P M2+ cpu: AMD Athlon 7750 black i doubt it's old hardware. also, why would old firmware see one disc and not the other. i can boot from the CentOS, Ubuntu and the W7 32 bit dvds. i dont have another dvd drive or i would have already tried that. i'm just looking for any...

when trying to boot with the 64 bit disc, my machine tries to read it, then continues into xp

yes, i have backups of my xp and am attempting a clean install. having the 64 bit disc in the drive acts like theres no disc in the drive at all. hence the 'invisible' title to the OP.

corrupted media was my first thought, but both copies of W7 behaves the same way. so if it is a mfg problem it's not just a fluke and one bad dvd. i've seen many 'boot from usb' suggestions, but xp cannot even see the disc in the drive. other dvds work just fine. like i said, i can boot from...

i've read all the howtos... i cant even get -that- far! thank you for the quick response! this is windows 7 ultimate, full version, purchased from the MS store. came in a plastic box with two discs, one 32 bit and the other is the 64 bit version. i have an image and backups of my current...

Hello, all. I am trying to do a clean install of windows 7 over xp. When i load the 64 bit disc, xp cannot read it. at boot time, the pc tries to read it then boots to xp. i tried the 32 bit disc and it works as expected. it boots, is visible, etc. i happened to purchase 2 copies, and they...