Problem reading the disc

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flamingsombrero
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Problem reading the disc

#1 Post by flamingsombrero » Fri Aug 15, 2008 8:07 am

My problem is that I cannot get the cd to boot at startup.

I burned the image at 8x using Ashampoo and have changed my bios settings to boot from my cd drive first. Yet when I start my computer it still boots into Vista from the hard drive.

Any ideas?

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#2 Post by Icecube » Fri Aug 15, 2008 9:07 am

Have you burned the iso as CD image or have you burned the iso as a file to the cd?

Normally you also can press F8 and select the cdrom drive to boot from the cdrom drive.

See: viewtopic.php?t=1433
It contains a link to a page which explains how you have to burn an iso to a CD for a lot of programs.

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#3 Post by flamingsombrero » Fri Aug 15, 2008 10:14 am

The image is properly mounted and I've tried the cd on another machine and it booted no problem.

I set the boot settings in the bios to solely boot from the cd drive to see if it would finally take but I just received an error message to insert a bootable disc.

The drive in question is an Optiarc 7200s

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#4 Post by as702 » Fri Aug 15, 2008 2:25 pm

Do you have access to a floppy drive? If so, try this:

Bootable CD Loader v1.50Z
http://www.wolfgang-brinkmann.de/bcdw/bcdl150z.zip
Enables PCs that do not support boot from CD (Bootable CD) to start bootable CDs.

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