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Problem reading the disc
Posted: Fri Aug 15, 2008 8:07 am
by flamingsombrero
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?
Posted: Fri Aug 15, 2008 9:07 am
by Icecube
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.
Posted: Fri Aug 15, 2008 10:14 am
by flamingsombrero
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
Posted: Fri Aug 15, 2008 2:25 pm
by as702
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.