Steven

The drive and disk are working. I've tested CD in the drive and they read, I
have a couple of legal copies of FS X so I tried different combination of
these DVD and nothing gets better. I'm convinced it's the UDF stuff that gone
crazy, I will try calling HP, that;s a good idea. Thanks Andy. Still working
on the problem.

"Andy" wrote:

> Were you able to try the DVD in another Computer, or at least on another DVD
> drive?
>
> Sounds like a hardware failure from the way you describe it. If you have
> System Restore running you could try rolling back your system til before all
> these problems started occuring. If it's a software problem then something
> you installed on your computer could be causing your dvd drive to fail
> reading.
>
> Might call HP, since it's a new computer you're probably covered under a
> hardware warranty. If you bought your system from a local brick and mortar
> store you might take the system back and have them test it for you. Keep in
> mind if it's a software issue you might have to pay for a fix unless the
> system is really new, then see if you can get an exchange (computer
> warraties don't cover software problems, only hardware).
>
> Hope that helps...
> -a.
>
> "Steven" <Steven@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:F8378193-42DF-42E8-A477-27372C1DD130@microsoft.com...
> >I have a new HP 2.8 Ghz machine with 2 GB RAM and new %12 MB ATI graphic
> > card. I upgraded the puter from native XP to Vista Home Premium. With a
> > little help from MS tech support, I got it working.
> >
> > I then bought and loaded FS X and got it working for awhile. I'm a big FS
> > user, so I imported all my FS9 a/c at one point, and screwed up FSX so I
> > decided to unistall it which I did succesfully. On the re-install, the
> > disk
> > failed to read certain files from the second DVD and the install aborted
> > and
> > crashed. Since then, I can't get the FSx DVD to be read. I got a UDF file
> > error, and "insert a new disk" error each time so I researched on here an
> > found the UDFS file problem suggestions. I did not install any DVD
> > writting
> > software on my machine, but I unstalled all applications except FS9 in
> > case,
> > and still I can't get my puter to read the FS X install disk to re-install
> > FSX. It just keeps spinning, with a blinking light in the DVD bay, and
> > eventually, Explorer crashes. I noticed I can't even boot my Vista upgrade
> > DVD anymore from the drive to try and repair Vista. I think I have UDF
> > reading problem. Does nayone know how to force Vista back to default UDF
> > reading of DVD so I can re-install my FS x?
>