Hi

Running a P4 2.8GHZ, Nvidia Geforce FX5200, 512MB DDR2 RAM, 120GB Samsung HDD, Alesis Multimix Firewire Pro Audio Mixer, XP Pro, Xp Home Partitions, NEC DVD RW Drive.


My pc is not booting from cd at startup. Its a NEC DVD RW drive and im using an XP Pro cd, and I have set the master boot settings to boot from CD, including CMOS settings and BIOS settings, and it still refuses to boot from an XPO Pro DISK, a Linux boot disk and even floppy diskettes. The OS wont load because the Master Boot RECORD is corrupt, but that can be fixed by running Recovery Console in setup and typing fixmbr. I thought it might be an issue with jumpers or perhaps the drivers not being available at the boot stage?

Any help welcome.

Cheers Matt It's not booting from CD-ROMs, floppies, or the hard drive?

But you reckon the hard drive's OK?

(Why?)


What HAPPENED prior to all of this would be both interesting and helpful.

You're not allowed to say "it just happened". OK. I wanted to create a backup of XP with all drivers etc on 4gb partition on the hard drive. This worked. I then wanted to boot from cd so i could erase the other partition and install the shiny new Ubuntu Studio (Linux for Audio Editing Professionally). This all went south quickly when the pc REFUSED to boot from the cd drive. I have however quickly realised how much of a PRAT I am, when I forgot to MAKE the CD a Data Disc. You have every right to call me a moronicus Toadus.We won't do that but thanx for posting back with your solution...