Boot Problems with CD Drive
September 30, 2006 9:00 AM Subscribe
My Dell Inspiron 5100 Laptop will not boot from any burned Live CDs, and in Windows XP the CDs appear blank. Other computers will load from the same LiveCDs, and my laptop will boot from the Dell diagnostic CD that came with the computer. Please help.
I am afraid that the CDRW/DVD drive, a Matshita UJDA740, might be broken.
I am afraid that the CDRW/DVD drive, a Matshita UJDA740, might be broken.
Did you burn these live CDs yourself all using the same program? Can you successfully burn non-boot disks? Possibly trying a different burning program would yield better results, or even simply slowing down the burn rate.
One possibility is that you're just burning the ISO like data instead of burning the actual disk image. In Nero, for example, if you just create a typical data disk and add the ISO file to the compilation, it won't be bootable -- you have to specifically choose "DVD-ROM (Boot)" as the mode (or go to file>open and select the ISO file).
posted by camcgee at 12:30 PM on September 30, 2006
One possibility is that you're just burning the ISO like data instead of burning the actual disk image. In Nero, for example, if you just create a typical data disk and add the ISO file to the compilation, it won't be bootable -- you have to specifically choose "DVD-ROM (Boot)" as the mode (or go to file>open and select the ISO file).
posted by camcgee at 12:30 PM on September 30, 2006
Response by poster: I burned the iso onto two CDs, on two different computers, one using burnatonce, and the other using DeepBurner. Both ISO CDs boot on other computers, and neither boots on the computer in question. The computer will read other data and audio CDs that I have burned, as well as commercial data Ds.
When I try to boot into the Live CD, my computer waits a few seconds, and the light on the CD drive lights up, but then the computer boots to Windows automatically. Then, when I look at the LiveCD in Windows, it says that the CD has 700MB of free space.
I can't find any other documentation of this problem online. Any advice would be appreciated. Thanks!
posted by billtron at 8:28 AM on October 1, 2006
When I try to boot into the Live CD, my computer waits a few seconds, and the light on the CD drive lights up, but then the computer boots to Windows automatically. Then, when I look at the LiveCD in Windows, it says that the CD has 700MB of free space.
I can't find any other documentation of this problem online. Any advice would be appreciated. Thanks!
posted by billtron at 8:28 AM on October 1, 2006
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posted by bda1972 at 9:23 AM on September 30, 2006