Can't boot w/ CD

[HermDogg]

Using a MiniQ from Jetway, Nu dvd 16x double layer burner, and for some reason I cannot get it to boot from a CD. I've used Knoppix, a Knoppix/MythTV combo deal, Win98 and WinXP, and it continues to boot from the hard drive. The BIOS options have 1 as CDROM and 2 and 3 as disabled. Any help/hints would be greatly appreciated!

 

[HermDogg]

So I went and fooled around a bit more, and turned off "Boot other devices.". Now it just says that it's a non-bootable disk, please insert system disk and press Enter. Is it possible that this is not a bootable drive? I wouldn't think that any of them nowadays would have this problem, or is it just that it can't boot from CD-R? The drive is a Nu DDW-163

 

[HermDogg]

Bumpity cuz I have no clue.

 

[mechBgon]

Huh Does the BIOS list the optical drive, if you go in and check the IDE channels? If not, maybe the drive is faulty or the IDE cable is faulty... you could try borrowing an optical drive out of another system as a fact-finding step, and try a different IDE cable if necessary too.

If you've burned a slipstreamed Windows CD, maybe it's simply not set up properly for bootability, too. Try it in a different system and see if you get the "Press any key to boot from CD..." prompt.

 

[AnonymouseUser]

Are the CDs recognized once booted into the OS from the hard drive? (Does it even have an OS installed?)
Is the drive properly recognized by the BIOS?
Did you burn all of these disks yourself from ISO images? If yes, what program?

 

[Brule]

Find a crappy, older drive and try it.

Check not only if the cd-rom drive is recognized, but also how it is recognized on the IDE info from the BIOS.

Make sure the disk is bootable through the software used in burning it. If the CDs were burned on another burner there's the option of re-burning it on the new drive for maximum compatibility. (had this problem with my new Optorite DVD burner)

Just today my "ultimate boot disk" no longer worked although I hadn't changed the setup one bit. Burned another copy (same iso, burner, media batch, everything) and it booted up no problem for memtest86.

A few ideas, good luck.

 

[HermDogg]

BIOS lists the drive correctly, no there is no OS installed as of yet, and all of the ones I have tried have been CD-Rs, although they have worked on all other machines they have been tried on. All disks burned off of ISOs using Roxio 6. I really don't have time to pull the drive out and throw another in there, I'll have to work on that tomorrow night. Thanks for the help though.