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Solve : pc wont boot any cd from any cd drive with any bios setting!!!?

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PC wont boot any CD from any CD drive with any bios setting.
I made CD drive the first to boot in the bios BUT STILL NOT ANYTHING
PLEASE HELP!!!There are only three REASONS the system will not boot to an optical drive:

1) The drive is not at the top of the bios boot order
2) The cd is either bad or not bootable
3) The drive is not working properlyactually the CD is first and u tried it on two Cd's
WINDOWS XP SETUP AND UBCD and the driver is working normally in windows even when removing the hard drive from booting list!!!You're doing something wrong...or the drive is dead.
Are you pressing F10 in the BIOS setup to " save changes and exit " ? ? ?i have two internal CD drives and one EXTERNAL high class expensive (brand new- blue ray) Cd drive and all work normally in windows. and yes I'm surely pressing f10!! What do you mean when you say both Cd drives work normally with windows? What kind of activities? How old are your optical drives? Quote from: jloen on August 11, 2010, 05:38:51 AM

i have two internal CD drives and one external high class expensive (brand new- blue ray) Cd drive and all work normally in windows. and yes I'm surely pressing f10!!

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Quote from: ALLAN on August 10, 2010, 10:40:38 AM
There are only three reasons the system will not boot to an optical drive:

1) The drive is not at the top of the bios boot order
2) The cd is either bad or not bootable
3) The drive is not working properly

This.

We can eliminate #3 for the most part, unless your computer can't boot from a USB optical drive.

Double-check #1. If you're 100% sure that #1 is accounted for (i.e.: your optical drive that you're using is FIRST), then we can MOVE on to what I've bolded from Allan's quote:

2) The cd is either bad or not bootable

If it's the Ultimate Boot CD (UBCD), then you may have burned it incorrectly. If burned incorrectly, then it will not be bootable. Bootable code on a CD (El Torito? Someone correct me on this if I'm wrong) will usually not show up in Windows Explorer, so it's difficult to tell whether or not it's bootable just from Windows Explorer.

What program are you using to burn the UBCD? Use that to determine whether or not it's bootable. ImgBurn is a good free program: http://www.imgburn.com/

If it's XP, then either:
a) Bad disc
B) A burned disc (slipstreamed)
or
c) A burned disc (not-so legitimate)

Obviously, if c), then we can't help you. If a), contact Microsoft, the point of purchase, or the manufacturer of your PC if it's an OEM copy directly from the manufacturer. If b), then are you manually slipstreaming or using a utility like nLite? If the latter, then use nLite to make the ISO as well, since it will make the ISO bootable. Use ImgBurn after that to burn the ISO to CD.


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