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    Booting to CD

    Discussion in 'Asus' started by Josh784, Sep 1, 2006.

  1. Josh784

    Josh784 Notebook Guru

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    My W3J came in the mail today. It looks and feels great. I don't like the way it's set up out of the box, so I'm going to wipe the hard drive, and do a reinstall of Windows. I've typically used Acronis Drive Cleaner for this. I went into the W3J's BIOS, and set the boot priority to have the CD drive #1. It boots to Drive Cleaner, but I get a message saying "PCI: Device 00:1f.2 not available due to rescource collisions". Nothing else happens

    I've never run into this before. I also have no idea what the error message means. Any ideas as to how I could get Drive Cleaner going?
     
    Josh784, Sep 1, 2006
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  2. Aryding

    Aryding Notebook Consultant

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    Have you tried just deleting the partions and reinstalling windows on a fresh new partition using the windows cd?
     
    Aryding, Sep 1, 2006
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