Install Xp from CDon a 1300 inspiron - Dell Inspiron 1300 Notebook

some time your system is 64 bit and software is compatible to 32 bit only. try to download 64 bit software

You must reinstall your audio controller, or since you did reinstall windows XP on your system make sure that all the drivers for your inspiron 1300 is installed to make all your devices function properly on the system go to your manufacturers website and download all your driver from there.

find your service tag it will be asked in the drivers and download part of the website.

Information is here
http://www.fixya.com/support/r3656360-dell_portable_computer_bios_hard_drive

If you are using Windows XP, it cannot burn DVD's without a third-party program (e.g. Sonic, Ulead, Roxio, Nero, etc.)

first of all restore ur system to an earlier date( a day before when u first installed nero) then move to a cyber cafe and search nero for windows vista then download that and install it again and if the problem persists then move to a near by laptop shop there will be compatiablity problem he will charge around 150-200

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it not only supports XP, 2000, and NT, I have personally tested it with Vista Home Premium and Ultimate. It works perfectly to reset any local user account to a blank password
You can use the ISO to burn a boot CD. Follow these instructions:
1. Download ISO file from http://www.windowspasswordsrecovery.com Windows Password Recovery Tool
2. Burn to a CD using a CD burning tool such as Nero or Roxio or MagicISO
3. Insert CD into drive and reboot.
4. You may have to select an option in the BIOS to get the computer to boot from the CD.
Booting up and clearing a password takes a minute or two works like a charm.

1300 comes with a dvd combo so you cant find it on dell's officeal site.

hah. last time i had this happen it was hardware failure on the cd/dvd drive... i hope this isnt the case!

these drives always have satisfactory drivers in windows itself. in your device manager, (control panel--> system-- hardware tab--device manager), does it show your drive in the right place? or is it below in the yellow question mark category indicating that there's a problem?

from your descrition, it sound a bit like you have a bad disk in there not a bad drive, but that's just a guess at this point.

in the device manager, if you "uninstall" your drive, on reboot, the drivers will be installed again ( I assume you have windows xp?). this may help refresh your drivers...

I remember in an older laptop, I upgraded to windows xp service pack 3, and it was that service pack that made my drive at weird, so i went back to sp2

go to the site on net and down-load bios and chipset of the system then installed it on the system.

Hi!

try this:

right click on "my computer"
Properties
Hardware tab
Device Manager button
click the + or plus sign on CD/DVD/CDRW drive
right click on your cd drive
click uninstall
click the + sign on IDE ATA/ATAPI controllers
right click on each option
and uninstall all of them

*if you have not uninstalled everything, do not click on "YES" for restarting the pc. make sure you uninstall everything first then restart it.

*after the restart, just wait for all the devices to install by itself and wait for the message for another restart then restart the pc again.

after that, if the issue is still not resolved, the you need to find a firmware for the cd drive then if updating the firmware doesn't works, then I suggest to replace the optical drive or if the system still has warranty, call Dell Tech Support for replacement drive.

Hope this helps!

:)

Karlox