DVD-Rom DVD-116 Prob.

[Comacozy]

Hello, and thank you all whom reply to this..

My system is:
- AMD XP3000+
- Asus A78N-Deluxe
- x2= 512 mb DDR400
- Nvidia Geforce 2 mx400
- Maxtor 5T060H6 (60gig hd. @ 7200 rpm) Primary Master
- DVD-Rom dvd-116 SecondaryMaster
- CD-R/RW RW7060A SecodarySlave
- OS.. Windows XP PRO. (Service pack 1) CD

PROBLEM:
I had bought the mobo, processor & ram just last week.. cause I was upgrading my computer... I had managed to save what i had on my harddrive.. but then due to my own mistake, i had to reformat my hd..

So I made my computer boot off my win. 98 SE cd and I reinstalled windows.. when it had finished I put in the XP update cd and installed that.. Except for soem reason my DVD rom has not been working how it has been before.. I noticed the problem when I had tried installing a game that has worked for me before (Planetside) then i tried with halfhalf.. etc etc..

It had said 'D:\ (or file whichever i attempted) is not a valid Win32 application" when i try running a file from a cd or sometimes even opening a cd itself.. the problem I got from planetside was a "Catastrophic Transfer Error" so i knew something was bad.. but my dvd rom bothered me.. So i tried to fix it..

I tried many things:
- I went into control panel and uninstalled it, then reinstalled it..
- Went into CP uninstalled.. restarted and let it be autodetected..
- Unintalled, turned off comp.. disconnected everythign, reconnected..
- Uninstalled, turned off comp.. changed all jumpers for all devicess to CableSelect
- Disabled all my onboard peripherals.. sound/vid/all usb things.. etc..
- Flash and Updated my bios..
- Updated my firmware
- Updated my Adatepc (or however its spelt) layer..
- Changed all my IDE cables
- Talked to a microsoft techy guy, didnt work
- Talked to a guy from Sony Online entertainment (maker of planetside) didnt help..

So i dont know what left to do
As i said, i had JUST installed win. xp.. I dont have any thing on cept for updated drivers and the OS..

Oh, by the way.. incase it matters.. My dvd rom was displaying itself as a "Virtual CloneDrive" before.. thats why i uninstalled it, I deduced that it was from "Clone-CD" but I wiped my comp. clean, so it shouldnt ahve still been there.. but it displays my dvd as a dvd rom so i got that to work.. jsut cant figure out why it wont run

Thank you, any questions.. please ask

[jmichna]

I don't really have an answer specific to your drive problem, but just wanted to let you know that when you have an XP "Upgrade" install CD, you don't have to actually install W98 onto your hard drive then upgrade. All you need to do is have the W98 CD available when you begin your fresh install of XP on the clean hard drive. XP install will just prompt you to insert the W98 CD at the appropriate time to verify the "upgrade status."

I know this doesn't help your current situation, but -- if something got fubared because W98 was already installed -- this may help you if you decide to start over and do XP fresh.

PS: Welcome to Techimo.

[Comacozy]

just recently updated the installshield for it too.. still no go.. but no one else gots suggestions or aything? please, i need the help