Ultimate Boot CD

thx for this info. it is indeed a ich9 so if dft doesn't support it, it can't work... strange enough and no good hitachi-support. the hdd is now in rma... thx anyway I posted my issues about ich9 chipset no one seems to have run into or have a solution. Best bet to run diagnostics on a laptop with ...

if you got os already on it you need partitioning software to do that.

Use a slipstreaming software to build the cd for xp. And set it to build it as bootable disc.

Standgo wrote:I use the notebook-keyboard its a intel chipset for penryn.

thx so far

see if you can find which chipset exactly.

e.g ich8 or ich9.

If its ich9 dft wont work at all. You will have to pull the drive out and put it in another system to try it.

which chipset on your laptop?
are you using usb keyboard?

The reason I want to boot from a CD is to use Secure Erase on the hard disk. However, I'm unable to get the CD to boot first. The BIOS points to it as first option, I've reburned the CD at the slowest possible speed, the CD drive is confirmed as a master, but it's still being bypassed. (The compute...

Hiya, I have been using the UBC for a while for diagnostics for harddrives. It has always worked flawlessly and saved a lot of time. I got a new laptop with the SATA drive running in AHCI mode. The controller shows up as Intel ICH9M-E/M under device manager under windows xp. The harddrive i am tryin...