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Re: Why would a PC not boot from CD?

  • Subject: Re: Why would a PC not boot from CD?
  • From: Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sun, 28 Aug 2005 08:12:51 +0100
  • Newsgroups: uk.comp.misc
  • Organization: schestowitz.com / Manchester University
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__/ On Saturday 27 August 2005 21:42, [Philip Herlihy] wrote : \__

> DVD actually.  I've taken the DVD player out of one machine and put it
> into one I want to install Small Business Server on, and although I can
> tell the BIOS to boot first from the CD/DVD, it fails to find the boot
> record,
> although I get a message to say it's looking for it on the CD.  I've also
> tried it with an XP Pro CD, and the same happens.  On all other machines,
> the XP disc is bootable.  What am I missing?  I'm no great shakes at the
> BIOS level - it's all half (quarter?) understood.

It sounds as if that machine gives up on the CD-ROM phase and moves onwards
to the next which is usually the hard-drive (if not network/floppy).

- Make sure that the head in your CD drive is clean. If it is not, the
effect would match that which is described above.

- Try booting from a floppy disk to re-assure yourself that the problems
does not lie at a higher level like BIOS, but rather at the CD drive's
level.

- Change the sequence of boot sources, e.g. to attempt CD-ROM before
anything else.

- Consider the fact that the drive might be faulty. Can this be checked,
e.g. by getting a DOS prompt and mounting the CD drive?

Hope it helps,

Roy

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