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Posted: **Thu Dec 11, 2003 5:24 am**

Have a sony laptop PCG-F580. The laptop can read, show directory contents, open .txt files in the CD-ROM drive but cannot execute anything.

Tried lots of things...finally reformatted the hard disk. Now have a laptop running on DOS...but the problem continues...still cannot run executable files from the CD-ROM drive like setup.exe

Could this be a BIOS problem? ...since i have tried booting the computer from a bootable CD.

Any help would be greatly appreciated

Posted: **Thu Dec 11, 2003 4:27 pm**

Does this happen with *ALL* CDs, or just your OS CD?

Posted: **Thu Dec 11, 2003 7:50 pm**

Seems to happen with the OS CD's and other CD's containing software installations. Haven't really tried with any other CD's since i don;t have too many CD's which have executables running on the DOS platform.

Posted: **Fri Dec 12, 2003 6:17 pm**

wot do u mean by certain files cos there is an option in your windows settings that chooses wether you CD-drive auto reads CDs

Posted: **Wed Dec 17, 2003 4:54 pm**

I'm assuming you want to run either 2K or XP, so use the OS Installation floppies to boot up (make them on another PC if you don't already have them) and see if the 2K/XP installation routine will read the CD.

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CD-ROM drive reading selected files. could this be bios ??

CD-ROM drive reading selected files. could this be bios ??

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