[ale] OT: BSOD

[William Fragakis]

In that case, might the system boot the Windows CD from an external
cd/dvd drive?

wf

On Fri, 2010-06-11 at 11:38 -0400, Michael B. Trausch wrote:
> On Fri, 2010-06-11 at 08:29 -0700, C Hendry wrote:
> > What puzzles me is that if the problem is the HD or what is on or not
> > on the HD, 
> > 
> > then why when booting from a Windows CD, do I get a BSOD even when I
> > totally unplug the HD from the system (both the Power and Data
> > cable)? 
> 
> Sounds like you need to use the F6 additional driver option on the
> Windows installer CD so that it can find the CD-ROM.  You must have a
> system that is highly unique, or uses SATA for the CD/DVD drive or
> something---regardless, Windows doesn't have a driver for it, and it
> sounds to me like you need a driver floppy for the CD.
> 
> 	--- Mike
> 
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