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Ben B
June 20th 04, 04:14 AM
Hello Rick and Mart,

A long thread on June 1st. and events subsequent prompt
this post. I hope this clarifies for you both something
seemingly without resolution.

Yesterday I had success at a partition, format and install
of WinMe. I was lucky - for two hours before I began it my
EBD failed. A week prior I found that the computer's
connecting ribbon to my CDROM drives was faulty. I had
been unable to burn CDs. The ribbon I changed. The burn
fest began.

The installation was carried out using a newly created EBD
on the Add/Remove program. The drive used for the disc
insertion was my H CDROM. I accessed it, by using, in
DOS, 'With CDROM support', and at the A:\> I:.

So there it is. Too many odds against each of us. My
thanks for help past and my best wishes to you each, Rick
and Mart.

Ben.

Rick T
June 20th 04, 07:35 AM
Hey, super, glad you got it fixed; that was one of the posts that left
me going "um............." after a while.


Happy computing,

Rick



Ben B wrote:

> Hello Rick and Mart,
>
> A long thread on June 1st. and events subsequent prompt
> this post. I hope this clarifies for you both something
> seemingly without resolution.
>
> Yesterday I had success at a partition, format and install
> of WinMe. I was lucky - for two hours before I began it my
> EBD failed. A week prior I found that the computer's
> connecting ribbon to my CDROM drives was faulty. I had
> been unable to burn CDs. The ribbon I changed. The burn
> fest began.
>
> The installation was carried out using a newly created EBD
> on the Add/Remove program. The drive used for the disc
> insertion was my H CDROM. I accessed it, by using, in
> DOS, 'With CDROM support', and at the A:\> I:.
>
> So there it is. Too many odds against each of us. My
> thanks for help past and my best wishes to you each, Rick
> and Mart.
>
> Ben.

Mart
June 20th 04, 03:42 PM
Thanks for the follow-up Ben. A faulty ribbon cable would certainly explain
an 'unrecognised' CD-ROM. Well done for seeing it through and thanks again
for 'closing the file' on this one <g>

Mart


"Ben B" > wrote in message
...
> Hello Rick and Mart,
>
> A long thread on June 1st. and events subsequent prompt
> this post. I hope this clarifies for you both something
> seemingly without resolution.
>
> Yesterday I had success at a partition, format and install
> of WinMe. I was lucky - for two hours before I began it my
> EBD failed. A week prior I found that the computer's
> connecting ribbon to my CDROM drives was faulty. I had
> been unable to burn CDs. The ribbon I changed. The burn
> fest began.
>
> The installation was carried out using a newly created EBD
> on the Add/Remove program. The drive used for the disc
> insertion was my H CDROM. I accessed it, by using, in
> DOS, 'With CDROM support', and at the A:\> I:.
>
> So there it is. Too many odds against each of us. My
> thanks for help past and my best wishes to you each, Rick
> and Mart.
>
> Ben.