this is my first time at the fixya forum, so not sure of the protocal or how to reply, but i hope you see this. the bios is set to atapi cd rom as the first boot device, but it is ignored, and boots windows xp pro from the c drive. the burner is a lite-on ltr-48246s cd-rom drive, and am curious if it has boot capability, as i had a cd-rom drive, and had no troubles booting from it, but that has since died. i moved the burner drive up to where the rom drive was, and set jumper to master.this is my first time at the fixya forum, so not sure of the protocal or how to reply, but i hope you see this. the bios is set to atapi cd rom as the first boot device, but it is ignored, and boots windows xp pro from the c drive. the burner is a lite-on ltr-48246s cd-rom drive, and am curious if it has boot capability, as i had a cd-rom drive, and had no troubles booting from it, but that has since died. i moved the burner drive up to where the rom drive was, and set jumper to master.
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To boot from a Cd drive, the very first thing u gotta do is to enter the CMOS setup at ur system startup and change the boot device preferences, as
first boot device: CD Rom,
Second boot device as : hdd0.
then save changes and reboot ur computer, then reinsert the bootable disc and it should work.
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first check the CD you are using is boot able in other system if not write a bootable CD and insert the other thing is of the drive if the drive is old and the lens are weak the boot able cd wont work you will have to find anew drive to test that remove all the ide connectors or sata connectors from the motherboard except the CD drive insert the boot able cd and and restart the system then press del and enter bios setup and click advanced option and make sure the first boot drive is CD then save and exit in some motherboard you need to use f12 to select the boot device then click it and select the boot drive as cd ROM then click click it then you will see after post bios boot from cd ROM press enter it will ask for confirmation press enter again you system then boot from the cd now switch off the computer connect the hard disk and try again
There are two parts to a drive like that. I suspect the DVD part has failed.
In
rare cases you might get it to work by trying installing new drive
firmware. You'd have to see if on the manufacturer website they have new
drivers for your drive unit, also you might want to try to boot from
bios with a DVD to see if the drives reads it, maybe a windows 7
installation DVD or a ubuntu distribution DVD, or just any DVD to boot from
bios, in any case that would tell you if any amount of drivers may
help. If it boots to a DVD disk then we can assume it is OK. If you can't
get it to boot then the drive is dead for DVD's.
If your Drive is a CD-Rome drive, surely it cant, for the drive cant read dvd disc.
Replace the drive of yours with DVD-Rom or DVD-RW in order to play dvd disc, DVD-RW simply has the added capablity to burn on DVD discs
you are saying two differnt things here.. CDROM and DVD if its a dvd in a CD ROM it will not boot a windows disk if somehow this is written to a DVD Is it original? Secondly is the Cd ( or DVD drive) actaully working. Being listed in CMOS does not guarantee that.
I know you have listed the drive as DVD but do you have 1 or two drives installed and not have the disk in the recognised drive.; have to eliminatge all possibilities of werror in interpretation here.
So assuming everything appears as it should, then the medial in the drive has to be considered at fault .. dirty disk.. drive needs iris clean, not an original disk, damaged disk, not a boot disk.. just a windows cvopy.;
yeah, if your registry has been trashed. you should use some registry defrag tools to fix it.
I know a <a href="http://www.system-tools-software.com/free-registry-defrag/">free registry defrag</a>, you can look for it and have a try.
Good luck!
try and roll back the drivers...also another way is to try and boot your machine off the cd drive..if it boots of the drive then you knoie that the drive is working and it is a driver error..if it wont boot off the drive the drive is probablly bad..make shure when trying to boot off the drive that you change your settings in your bios to for to boot from cd..
were they working previously? remove the case cover and check the flat ribbon cables connecting the cd drives to the motherboard. Make sure the red stripe on the ribbon cable is on pin #1 of the plug. It could be loose on any of the three cable connections and cause that symptom.
choose in bios the first boot device the cd rom that is right then insert your winxp cd then save and exit. your computer then reads your cd and automatically reads rour previous operating sytem and installs
As a first step try running this and then reboot the computer. Sometimes windows loses track of CD drivers. I see one or two computers a week at work with this problem. If they doesn't work it could be a few other things, let me know if it works.
this is my first time at the fixya forum, so not sure of the protocal or how to reply, but i hope you see this. the bios is set to atapi cd rom as the first boot device, but it is ignored, and boots windows xp pro from the c drive. the burner is a lite-on ltr-48246s cd-rom drive, and am curious if it has boot capability, as i had a cd-rom drive, and had no troubles booting from it, but that has since died. i moved the burner drive up to where the rom drive was, and set jumper to master.
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