Win XP - CD/DVD drives work in safe boot, but not in normal boot
#16
Posted 05 April 2012 - 08:49 AM
#17
Posted 05 April 2012 - 03:51 PM
#18
Posted 05 April 2012 - 04:09 PM
Also has the Dell ever been formatted before?
If not there might be a recovery partition still on the hard drive to do the reinstallation.
The key combination is CRTL + F11 pushing the keys at the same time at the the dell screen during post. Once you push them then you want to release them.
It should go into the recovery partition so you can do a system restore.
#19
Posted 05 April 2012 - 04:39 PM
#20
Posted 05 April 2012 - 04:46 PM
#21
Posted 06 April 2012 - 08:35 AM
#22
Posted 06 April 2012 - 08:43 AM
I then restored the original Dell XP Pro system from my backup image, so system was back to original state. I then tried a Windows XP Pro repair from a standard Microsoft retail copy of XP Pro (rather than from the Dell XP Pro disk which I have). When this completed the Optiarc DVD/RW drive caused the usual problem of progress bar freezing during normal boot.
It seems the problem is with your backup then. If everything works on a clean install then I would go with that and do all the updates through Microsoft and see if the issue returns then.
#23
Posted 06 April 2012 - 09:19 AM
#24
Posted 06 April 2012 - 09:24 AM
Then unclick everything and reboot.
If it works right then click one thing on and reboot. Keep doing that till you click everything back on or find the culprit.
#25
Posted 06 April 2012 - 09:35 AM
#26
Posted 06 April 2012 - 09:38 AM
#27
Posted 07 April 2012 - 03:04 PM
#28
Posted 07 April 2012 - 03:20 PM
Quick suggestion...install one program at a time and make sure the drive is still responding correctly. That way if it is some software causing all this you will find it right away. The only reason I can see the Dell XP causing this is because of drivers it may load if the Dell XP is not for this system.I'll maybe slowly work on re-einstalling all the software, while keeping the present copy as current until I get it all done. Thanks for all your help anyway, but it doesn't seem like there's any quick fix in this case!
#29
Posted 21 April 2012 - 04:39 PM
It has been 14 days since your last response and I was wondering if the issue has been resolved?
If so can you explain how it was resolved so others may be able to fix it if they have the same issue.
If not please let us know and we can continue with helping you to resolve the issue.
#30
Posted 16 May 2012 - 09:34 AM
It has been 39 days since your last response and I was wondering if the issue has been resolved?
If so can you explain how it was resolved so others may be able to fix it if they have the same issue.
If not please let us know and we can continue with helping you to resolve the issue.
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