My actual OS boots fine but whenever i insert a CD and restart it never works so when it started i pressed delete and went to bios feuatures settings and i changed the boot sequence so it was CD-rom-S-summut else so then i inserted the disk and restarted by pressing the reset button and it just wont work. If it helps my PC is a old daewoo banger that was designed for windows NT and i had windows 98 but installed wind ows XP? Please tell me why oh and if it would help if i told u what i try to boot it is Mandriva one 2008? Plz help
2007-10-24 04:18:02 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Desktops
Figure out whether the CD is bootable. Try using the CD on other PCs. If its working, try replacing the CDROM with other. It did happened to me and I used a USB CDROM drive to install my OS. Hope this will help you.
2007-10-24 04:27:40 · answer #1 · answered by turfyguy 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Some older CD drives cannot boot from some formats/brands of CD-R's. Which would explain why an original OS cd would boot but not a burned Linux distro. Try a different CD-Rom drive. Usually a CD-RW or DVD drive will have no truoble reading most formats.
2007-10-24 04:40:53 · answer #2 · answered by JJ 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Is the disk that you are trying to boot "bootable"? To find out put a Win98/XP/Vista installation cd in the drive and see if the system will boot from one of these.
2007-10-24 04:24:35 · answer #3 · answered by Ron M 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋