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I haven't had the chance to install Roxio since it's on a CD and the drive won't read any other CDs besided the XP on boot and the drivers CD. I'm thinking about borrowing an external CD drive to install my other apps (microsoft office and printer software) but would like to find a solution w/o...

The only CD that it has read is the XP CD during boot, and for some odd reason the Dell CD that has my drivers on it, I was able to use. I've tried all my other software CDs (Microsoft Office, other factory & printer software) but they just won't show up. This thing is driving me nuts! I...

Thanks for the suggestions. It does the same thing every time: makes some spinning and fan noises when it's first inserted for a good 30 seconds, then a CD picture shows up on my cursor tip showing that a CD has been inserted and trying to read, but then I click on "D:" to pull up the CD or to...

I have a Dell Inspiron E1505 and upgraded to Windows Vista, around the same time my CD/DVD drive stopped reading CD's that work in other computers. I decided that I didn't like Vista that much and went back to XP, but the still have the CD drive issue. I recently reformatted my HD and the CD...

I don't believe so and it's a labtop E1505. From what I've read, it comes with two partitions. When I upgraded to Vista, it deleted the restore point created by Dell.

Freestone, nontaken! :) The fact that my factory restore point doesn't work bothers me, but not to the extent to where I want to reformat, create a new restore point, and go through the whole nine yards for no reason. The difficulty that I'm having with Adobe prompted the idea. The problem...

Well I didn't want to reformat the HD until I had a problem with the software- thinking that I wouldn't be able to remove it. Obviously I'm not a computer expert, it was just a thought which is why I posted here, to hopefully get a solution to my problem. mscallisto, thanks for the help!

I have a series of problems! It all started last year when I decided to upgrade to Windows Vista from XP. During the upgrade the factory restore point created by Dell had been erased. I didnt like Vista so I reformatted my computer and reinstalled windows XP and all factory software, but...