CD-ROM not detected

[Scrofula]

Bear with me, this is a bit long (and possibly rambling) but I hope it will provide most of the information you will need to help me.

I have recently replace the hard drive in my work computer, the hard drive has been pre-loaded (by me) with Windows XP Home and boots up fine in my home PC that I used to install it.

It will not boot up in the work machine at all though, when it gets to the loading the OS part of the boot up sequence it continually restarts.

Now I have been informed that as the drivers on my work machine and home machine differ, and that I need to boot from the CD-ROM and select repair installation to get it working.

The problem I have with this is that when I go into the set-up to tell the computer to boot from CD-ROM instead of the SATA drive the system is telling me that there is no CD-ROM present.

The light on the front of the CD-ROM does come on briefly when the computer starts so it is getting power etc, and I have checked the connection to the mother-board to make sure the cable is firmly in place.

Any suggestions?

 

[PurdueRy]

I assume its not saying there is no CD present in the CD-rom on bootup?

 

[Scrofula]

No, it is saying the device is not present.

I have also just now tried booting from the floppy drive as that is detected (using the six floppies that get created by the program from here Microsoft Floppy Install) to try and re-install or repair but after it had gone through all six discs and selecting the option to start installing woindows it said it could not detect my cd-rom drive.

 

[dbravo223]

Have you tried switching the cables to the CD-ROM. Maybe the cables when bad. Do you have extra cables to replace the old ones.