"No Medium" Detected on CD Boot
Posted: Tue Jul 13, 2010 7:57 am
Hello. I'm trying to run UBCD on an Alienware Aurora computer. I burnt the ISO to a CD using Windows 7's disk image burning utility. The CD is readable in Windows. Its top-level directory contains the following:
I restart my computer with the CD in the CD-ROM drive, and punch F12 for Boot Options.
I select the CD-ROM drive from the menu.
The BIOS reports
Then it boots into Windows.
I have two optical drives, and it happens with both. I changed the boot source order in BIOS to make the CD-ROM drive the first source, but that didn't change anything.
Am I missing a step? Shouldn't the CD have autoexec.bat and config.sys files in the top-level directory, in order to boot into DOS? Or does autorun.inf take care of that?
Thanks for any help.
Regards,
Jim Crutchfield
Long Island City, NY
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antivir\
boot\
pmagic\
ubcd\
autorun.inf
license.txt
I select the CD-ROM drive from the menu.
The BIOS reports
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Boot ready.
No medium.
I have two optical drives, and it happens with both. I changed the boot source order in BIOS to make the CD-ROM drive the first source, but that didn't change anything.
Am I missing a step? Shouldn't the CD have autoexec.bat and config.sys files in the top-level directory, in order to boot into DOS? Or does autorun.inf take care of that?
Thanks for any help.
Regards,
Jim Crutchfield
Long Island City, NY