Strange doings...

[johnnywyoming]

Have a AMD machine which I just upgraded from Win 2000 Pro to Winxp Pro SP3. Plenty of RAM and fast enough. Am upgrading photoshop CS2 to CS4. Have completely formatted/partitioned the drive numerous times. Everything loads fine off of the DVD/CD drive except for the CS4 upgrade disk. It is not the disk as the disk can be read by most other machines I put it in. My Computer will show the drive but no data whatsoever. It seems to have a problem when I try to load it into two other AMD machines... all of which are still running Win 2000. All Intel machines running XP it loads up just fine. Don't have an AMD machine running XP (except mine) to try it on... not that I think it is a AMD - Intel problem anyway. The disk is for XP Pro. Our county pc tech has had it over the weekend but no luck. He can get it to read on his pc. Any thoughts??

[EzyStvy]

Pop in a different cd Drive and see if that helps.

[Iamjosh]

I have read your post several times and am still not too clear about the operating systems; does the upgrade disc work with any system running Win 2000?
Does the upgrade disc work with all the systems running XP?

I had a problem very similar to this many years ago it turned out to be the optical drive(24X) could not read the newer media because it was outdated.

[johnnywyoming]

That is something to check out. The upgrade is for XP, not 2000. It opens only on XP machines except for mine which I have upgraded to XP... so the Win2000 problem is a moot point I would think. My drive is about seven years old, but it reads everything else. The county tech is going to try a different d drive.

[glc]

Do you have a spare AMD machine that you can update to XP just to try it and rule out that possibility? If you don't have a spare license, you can still install it and just not activate it, you get 30 days to "try" it.

[johnnywyoming]

Trying another drive didn't work. Tech pulled his out of a Intel machine where the disk would load and plugged into mine with same results... would not load.

[johnnywyoming]

Tried networking to a pc that would read the disk and it worked great. Still do not know what the problem is but most likely it is too old of a cpu (seven years). Thanks for the ideas!!