Thanks for the spam happynow2

Anouther alternative is to download the image of the cd you have just recived and use a bit of software you will have to google for as i am not sure of the legality...

Good stuff, please mark this thread solved so it dose not get dug up again in 2 years time.

Happy computing.

Ok you have a NVIDIA GeForce 7600 GS.

Manually download and install the nvidia driver from the nvidia site.

Product Type: GeForce
Product Series: GeForce 7 series
Operating System: (Your...

Ok mate, please can you follow these steps?


right click my computer > Properties > Hardware > Device manager

Expand Other Devices > right click and select properties.

In the new dialog...

If bobs method of repairing windows fails.........

Try updating the firmware for your DVD drive. We will need some more infomation on the make and model of your drive. Please post the make and...

If bob's method fails then do the following.

Go to the nvidia site and select download drivers.

There you will see

"Option 2: Automatically find drivers for my NVIDIA products"

Click on...

This sounds like a good idea to me, did you not want to use xp rather than vista though? What you could do is reformat and reinstall XP on your 500 gig hard drive and then copy the files over from...

Yes that would be best, sorry i assumed you wanted xp rather than vista.

Do you mind loosing the data currently on your xp hard drive?

Alternativly you could try booting into the recovery console and actually doing a chkdsk /F

1) Boot from the xp installation cd
2)...

It was running propally on a diffrent hardware setup, differant motherboard, processor, ram. It's a diffrent computer! No way will windows "Just work" on completly diffrent hardware!

Media555, i...

Are you sure it's not reconising it. I think it is more likly that you are trying to run windows set up to run on one set of harware on anouther. The best thing i can suggest is to remove the 500 gb...

It sounds like a dodgy cd or dusty drive. If you have a steam account log on and add the cd key. You will then be able to download all the game content and not need the disc at all :)