bootable?

[Spamdini]

so im going ot be getting myself a new rig for ~Nov 10th, and i just want to clarify a few things before so i dont have to make an enormous TELL ME WHAT YOU THINK thread.

i was helping my friends reformat his pc a while back and we had very much trouble booting up from a a bootable winxp cd in his dvd burner, is it that dvd burner drives arent bootable, im planning on getting the Pioneer DVR-108D (reviewed here at AAT) so i dont want to have that problem when i get my new pc.

also i know dvd burners burn and read dvd but do they burn and read cds aswell?
thanks.

 

[theblackbox]

dvd burners usually burn cd's as well.

aren't all winxp cd's bootable? i didn't think oem or retail xp came with a boot disk or required a boot disk anymore.

 

[Spamdini]

yeah they are but it wouldnt boot from the cd when we tried with the dvd burner. so i was just making sure, cause im worried, i was wondering if i should just gte a dvd burner, or a dvd burner plus a dvd rom drive, or dvd burner plus a cd rom drive but it seems dvd burner plus a dvd rom drive is the best way to go so i copy dvd to dvd or cd to cd

 

[Boonesmi]

Originally posted by: Spamdini
yeah they are but it wouldnt boot from the cd when we tried with the dvd burner. so i was just making sure, cause im worried, i was wondering if i should just gte a dvd burner, or a dvd burner plus a dvd rom drive, or dvd burner plus a cd rom drive but it seems dvd burner plus a dvd rom drive is the best way to go so i copy dvd to dvd or cd to cd

if it was having problems booting from cd it probably didnt have anything to do with the dvd burner (dvd burners can read bootable cd's as well as cdrom, cdrw, etc) it was most likely using a cd that was either damaged/scratched. or possibly using a burned copy of winxp that was using low quality media and/or a low quality burner to make the copy.