computer guru needed

[luckydog]

well after TTC went to Bestbuy and checked out the emachine, he found out there is no button to open the drive, I have to open it by going into my computer, click on dvd drive and click on open.

it closes when you press the tray lightly. that problem is solved

I guess they were more worried about making the computer look fancy, then functional

on my old computer with 80gb drive i downloaded the softwear for the 6 floppies from microsoft site to get the computer ready to accept xp.

after loading them it wants xp home edition cd, which i don't have right now.
i'm getting the cd to try it, i have my serial number to use with it.

the system won't take my restore cds or another xp cd i had burned.

if all else fails i will put the orginal 40gb drive with xp back in it and put it away with my other obsolete computers

[luckydog]

what kind of dos command would i need to run a program on my cd drive??

I'm trying to setup Ubuntu to see if that will work!!

i have the ubuntu iso file burned to a cd already

and i have the floppy formated for accepting dos commands

i've been having poor luck trying to get windows working on 80gb drive

[compirate]

Keep your windows 40 gig and put the 80 gig as a slave on the primary channel. What is it your trying to do, up the storage?

[luckydog]

well after being sick with a cold for 10 days, i'm finally feeling better

I put the 40gb with windows xp back in and set the 80gb as a slave drive.

all is working ok, but, I did buy a new computer a few weeks ago, so the one i've been working on with this problem will go out to pasture

thanks all for your help