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Unable to install windows
So, I'm trying to reinstall my Acer E300 -Mb72.
I am using a disk I used before on my Dell computer. It's a full version, RTM. I do have a valid key. Yet when I boot from the disk, after "Windows is copying files" and right before I get to choose Upgrade or custom install, a small popup hops up, telling me I do not have the drivers needed to install windows. I was like wtf? More specifically, it tells me I am missing the drivers for the CD/DVD drive, even though I just booted from it.
To give you a better view at it:
It's not really my computer, its a friends. I'm fixing it for him. He messed it up somehow and now it wont boot. It goes straight to the Windows screen that asks you what to do. I can choose between safe mode, start using latest working settings etc. None work. Safe mode does get to the login screen tho, but if you try to login it reboots.
So what should I do? One unbootable XP, one non-working XP disk and a Windows 7 disk that's perfectly fine except it wont install.
I asked this question on another forum. They said I should change SATA mode to IDE instead. I had one of those flashbacks about reading something about IDE mode, and that it was a bad idea. So here I am.
All help, anything that could lead me in the right direction, is greatly appreciated.
//psYko :)