A150 wont boot from external CD Rom

Discussion in 'Laptop Hardware' started by planzman, Dec 11, 2008.

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    planzman

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    I am trying to change from Linux to XP and to do that i want to use my external cd rom. It is a Samsung DVD-writer that Linux recongnizes from file manager. I can see the xp install files here. However, even though i have updated the bios to 3305 (from 3304), and selected the cd as the boot device, it still does not boot to the cd.

    Any suggestions?
     
    planzman, Dec 11, 2008
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    Are you certain that you burned the xp CD or DVD as a bootable image? That is about the only reason I can think of that it wouldnt work. It is also a good idea to burn at slow speed when creating a bootable CD or DVD, so maybe the data was corrupted if it was burned at too high of a speed.
     
    AceRyan, Dec 11, 2008
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