The brand of CD Rom should be irrelevant.. If you can get it to boot off the
CD then you should be in good shape.  The only thing might be a driver issue
for the CD rom. after everything's installed.

Dave Jones
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Ted Saselli" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Tuesday, August 20, 2002 2:58 PM
Subject: [PCBUILD] Product Recovery Problem


> I have an IBM Aptiva 2153-E3U computer, K6-350, 128megRam, 8gHD, Win98SE.
I want to use the included Product Recovery CD to return the system to it's
original configuration.  The recovery instructions have you inserting the
Product Recovery CD into the CDR drive while the system is running, shutting
down, and then restarting the machine.  However, when I do that nothing
happens because, after I purchased the machine, I installed a CDRW drive and
it is set as the master drive while the original CDR drive is set as the
slave (when booting, the CDRW master is accessed but the CDR slave is not).
Now I could place the Product Recovery CD in the CDRW drive and I am sure it
would be recognized.  But I am afraid that, because the CDRW drive was
installed at a later date, I might be in a heap of trouble because the CDRW
drive was not in the origi
>

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