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Can't boot from DVD drive
"Jan Alter" wrote in
: So what happens if you choose 5) - 7) Hard drives and select the subcategory HL-DT-STDVD-RA ? I'm sorry, Jan. I'm not sure I understand what you are asking. The list I was referring to were available boot devices. I don't think there are any subcategories. 5) - 7) Represent my 3 hard drives. |
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Can't boot from DVD drive
philo wrote in
: Well if the device is usable from within the OS it's got to be OK It should be listed somewhere in the bios? It is in the CMOS setup utility. Otherwise nowhere that I can find in the BIOS. |
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"Flip Wilson" wrote in message ... "Jan Alter" wrote in : So what happens if you choose 5) - 7) Hard drives and select the subcategory HL-DT-STDVD-RA ? I'm sorry, Jan. I'm not sure I understand what you are asking. The list I was referring to were available boot devices. I don't think there are any subcategories. 5) - 7) Represent my 3 hard drives. I guess I misunderstood so am sorry for the direction I was trying to lead you. I thought the HL-DT-STDVD-RA was showing up as a bootable device under the hard drive category. Another thought to try is disconnecting the Sony CD-ROM drive and keep the DVD drive attached. And here goes the stretch thought: check out the mb maker's website to see if there is an updated bios, and if there is read what their comments are to what it fixes. -- Jan Alter |
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Can't boot from DVD drive
Flip Wilson wrote:
"Jan Alter" wrote in - september.org: Is 'CD' or 'CD-ROM' listed as one of the items that you can boot? In the CMOS setup utility, my CDROM drive shows up as "SONY CD-RW CRX" under "IDE Primary Master". My DVD drive shows up as "HL-DT-STDVD-RA" under "IDE Primary Slave" As for boot options, there are 9 options: 1) Floppy 2) - 4) Card Reader 5) - 7) Hard drives 8) "CD/DVD: PM-SONY CD-RW CRX216" 9) Disabled So my CD drive is available to boot from. There isn't a boot *order* configuration (i.e., what order of drive types to use)? Try using the following boot device order: first=#1(floppy) second=#8(CD/DVD) third=#5-7(hard disk) Did you have a disc in the CD-RW drive and not in the DVD-RA drive? That might've been why the first drive with media was listed. It may also simply list the first found device but any such device type would work. That is, if you put a disc in the CD-RW drive then you can boot from that, but there is no disc in that one but there is in the next device (DVD-RA) then that device gets used for booting. What is the current boot *order* now? You said that you were able to boot using the DVD-RA drive when you installed Windows 7. You sure it was the DVD drive and not the CD-RW drive? Did you open the case at any time to change hardware before or after your install of Windows 7? Maybe you tugged on the data cable going to the DVD drive and pulled it off or loosened it. Can you use the DVD drive (not for booting but just reading files off discs that you put in it)? |
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Can't boot from DVD drive
On Sun, 17 Jan 2010 04:40:04 +0000 (UTC), Flip Wilson
wrote: I installed windows 7 a few weeks ago. Now my DVD drive isn't available to boot from. The drive is detected in my BIOS, and works fine once windows boots. Any help would be appreciated. Is it with the same install-disc you can't boot ? or an other bootable disk ? or not at all possible to boot from any bootable disc ? It is possible that the format of the un-bootable disk is 'ISO 13346 UDF' standard; Some older BIOS (maybe +/- 4 years old) don't recognise always this format and give possible an 'error 15', and take the next bootable device specified in the BIOS. If that is the problem, it's possible to boot with a bootable 'workaround BIOS' LINUX floppy, set as first boot, and then select the ISO/UDF-disc. Lucas |
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VanguardLH wrote in :
There isn't a boot *order* configuration (i.e., what order of drive types to use)? Try using the following boot device order: first=#1(floppy) second=#8(CD/DVD) third=#5-7(hard disk) Yes. There is a boot order. I've already tried that boot order, and my PC always boots from the hard drive. Just for kicks, I tried making my CD drive my first, second AND third boot device, (with "Boot other device" set to "NO") and it still booted from the hard drive, which I wasn't expecting. Looks like my PC boots from one of my hard drive regardless of the boot device order. Did you have a disc in the CD-RW drive and not in the DVD-RA drive? That might've been why the first drive with media was listed. It may also simply list the first found device but any such device type would work. That is, if you put a disc in the CD-RW drive then you can boot from that, but there is no disc in that one but there is in the next device (DVD-RA) then that device gets used for booting. Good point. I've tried booting with a CD in my CD drive and DVD in my DVD drive. Neither will boot. What is the current boot *order* now? You said that you were able to boot using the DVD-RA drive when you installed Windows 7. You sure it was the DVD drive and not the CD-RW drive? Yes. Windows 7 was installed from a DVD, not a CD. Did you open the case at any time to change hardware before or after your install of Windows 7? Before I installed windows7, I replaced a TV card. I was able to boot from my DVD drive then because I was able to install windows. After windows was installed and my DVD drive couldn't boot, I unplugged the data and power cables to the DVD drive, rebooted, then turned the PC off and reconnected the cables securely to let the DVD be detected again. Maybe you tugged on the data cable going to the DVD drive and pulled it off or loosened it. Can you use the DVD drive (not for booting but just reading files off discs that you put in it)? Yes. Once Windows 7 boots, my DVD drive works fine. |
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Well, I've gone as far as I can on a *generic* host since you never have
identified your make and model. Could be you have SATA hard disks and IDE optical drives and somehow SATA devices get booted first, or you SATA optical drives and IDE hard disks and the BIOS defaults to using IDE devices first. |
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Can't boot from DVD drive
VanguardLH wrote in :
Well, I've gone as far as I can on a *generic* host since you never have identified your make and model. Could be you have SATA hard disks and IDE optical drives and somehow SATA devices get booted first, or you SATA optical drives and IDE hard disks and the BIOS defaults to using IDE devices first. My motherboard is an XFX nForce 610I GEFORCE 7050 SOCKET775 DD |
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Can't boot from DVD drive
Flip Wilson wrote:
VanguardLH wrote in : Well, I've gone as far as I can on a *generic* host since you never have identified your make and model. Could be you have SATA hard disks and IDE optical drives and somehow SATA devices get booted first, or you SATA optical drives and IDE hard disks and the BIOS defaults to using IDE devices first. My motherboard is an XFX nForce 610I GEFORCE 7050 SOCKET775 DD IF you installed the OS from the DVD. AND you didn't change ANYTHING, I can't see any way windows could have affected the system unless it reflashed your BIOS. I don't think it did that. I'm too lazy to reread the thread, so some of this may be redundant... Did you unplug the hard drive and see if it would boot from DVD? Did you swap the DVD to the primary port? I have seen situations where the system would skip the DVD and boot directly from the HD. But if I removed the HD, it would boot from the DVD. I'm just guessing that my DVD drive was marginal. With no other available boot options, it may try more times before giving up. There's a thing called PLOP boot manager. I've used it on older systems where the bios didn't let me boot the way I wanted. I booted PLOP from a floppy and used it to select the boot device. http://www.plop.at/en/bootmanagerdl.html |
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Can't boot from DVD drive
"mike" wrote in message ... Flip Wilson wrote: VanguardLH wrote in : Well, I've gone as far as I can on a *generic* host since you never have identified your make and model. Could be you have SATA hard disks and IDE optical drives and somehow SATA devices get booted first, or you SATA optical drives and IDE hard disks and the BIOS defaults to using IDE devices first. My motherboard is an XFX nForce 610I GEFORCE 7050 SOCKET775 DD IF you installed the OS from the DVD. AND you didn't change ANYTHING, I can't see any way windows could have affected the system unless it reflashed your BIOS. I don't think it did that. I'm too lazy to reread the thread, so some of this may be redundant... Did you unplug the hard drive and see if it would boot from DVD? Did you swap the DVD to the primary port? I have seen situations where the system would skip the DVD and boot directly from the HD. But if I removed the HD, it would boot from the DVD. I'm just guessing that my DVD drive was marginal. With no other available boot options, it may try more times before giving up. There's a thing called PLOP boot manager. I've used it on older systems where the bios didn't let me boot the way I wanted. I booted PLOP from a floppy and used it to select the boot device. http://www.plop.at/en/bootmanagerdl.html That sounds like a terrific utility and a winner if it works. Earlier in the thread I'd mentioned to the OP to take a look at the support site for his mb and see if there happens to be a newer bios for his mb, and if so to see what it fixes. He recently posted the name and number of his mb and I went to XFX (maker of his mb) but found one had to register their product before any downloads would be available. That stopped my search as I had no XFX motherboard serial number to register. About ten years ago I had an Abit KT7 that at some point in its life wouldn't allow booting from the CD, even when I chose the CD as the first device. It had a pretty early bios in the KT7 series and when I flashed it to the newest I was suddenly re-able to boot from the CD. It was memorable to me at least, and I thought perhaps the same possiblity could be true of the OP's mb, should there be a new bios available. -- Jan Alter |
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