Need some extreme CD/DVD rom...

Aug 26th, 2010 at 01:56 PM
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Jo Rice
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Scott Swedorski wrote:
Jo Ann wrote:
Installed the devices, the drivers I tried to do but it won't let me, and we also pulled the drives out and replaced them back in as well as testing the wiring etc. but....

No Scott I can't do it lol, I have no CD ROM drive to read my windows CD :/

I install Windows from an external device with an ISO. Much faster then CD. Remember, I format on the 1st, 15th and 25th of each month. ;)


Seriously you can do that? We just purchased a little notebook and it doesn't come with a drive at all so we're thinking to get a external usb cd/dvd drive for it. Will that work? And how do you do that because doesn't the computer have to know where to look? Or do you tell the bios to look for that drive or what?
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Aug 26th, 2010 at 02:04 PM
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You can do all sorts of stuff. ;) There are quite a few options out there and most are pretty easy. After you do it once, it is easy to remember.

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Aug 26th, 2010 at 02:08 PM
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Jo Rice
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cool great to know, hopefully I won't have this problem anymore and need to worry about it, but still good to know if it happens again lol.

BTW, you format way too much! LOL
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Aug 26th, 2010 at 02:14 PM
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That is why my computer works flawlessly. Why spend an hour trying to figure something out when a format is the perfect cure. ;)
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Aug 26th, 2010 at 02:30 PM
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Jo Rice
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haha, because your method doesn't work for me, I actually did try that back in Jan or Feb when I did that last format. Tried installing a bunch of things at once... umm... don't know what you are installing all at once, but my computer puked and said "forget it woman, one at a time or none at a time" so for me, formatting is only on necessity, days of reinstalls are not what I call productive lol.
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Aug 26th, 2010 at 08:25 PM
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Remember, I format on the 1st, 15th and 25th of each month.

Why not just use Goback to have a pristine install daily?
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Aug 26th, 2010 at 09:34 PM
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or deep freeze, the school it folks swear by it
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Aug 26th, 2010 at 10:07 PM
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Yeah, that's what we did when I worked for an IT department at a college. We put Goback on all the library computers. The kids could do whatever they wanted to the computers and it only took a reboot to get it back to the way we wanted. Of course this was ten years ago. I'll have to check out deep freeze.
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