Win 7 machine does not boot from Linux Live CD - NTLDR missing

[radhak]

My win 7 desktop works fine, boots without a problem.

But when I created a Linux Mint Live CD today and tried booting off it, it stops at the onset with an error message : "NTLDR missing. Press CTRL-ALT-Del to reboot"

It continues to boot nicely with Win 7.

What's going wrong?

 

[lxskllr]

How did you create the CD?

 

[radhak]

Downloaded from LinuxMint and burnt a DVD.

Just now I was able to boot into LinuxMint on my laptop with the same DVD.

The laptop is fairly new (Intel i5, 4GB RAM) and has Win 7 Home, while the desktop is an old machine (Pentium 4, 3GB RAM) and is on Win 7 Pro.

 

[lxskllr]

Might be something wrong with the optical drive. Do you have a thumb drive you could try?

 

[radhak]

Tried both optical drive - same error.

I've used the optical drive to read CDs/DVDs recently, and have booted into Windows too. It's only problem is with booting to Linux using the Live CD.

Dunno why it's bemoaning NTLDR when booting to Linux!

I've booting the desktop into a small-footprint Linux using a thumbrive; have not tried with Mint yet.