USB-CD-ROM not booting

Hallo there,

I've just bought an external USB CD drive (Teac CD-224e) to install Vista (vlited, 2 disc version) or at least windows xp from orig cd.
BUT... My acer aspire one 150l doesn't boot from cd... The drive is recognized in linux itself and in bios (-bootoptions), but it's not booting at all...

I got the information that this drive is compatible with the a150l, but it seems... hm... it isn't -.-

Is there any way to boot vista/xp with it or do i have to get my money back because it's crap?



Regards

Chris

 

did you change the boot sequence in startup?

press F12 on startup and select usb device.

 

yo, i did.

 

A friend of mine had this problem said he had changed boot, but he had only highlited it and not moved it to top of boot list could you have made same mistake

 

do you have another system you can try to boot that TEAC drive from?
I just tried with a BenQ DW1655/Vantec Nextstar combo and it worked perfectly fine.
I've also booted from an external Plextor 716UF.

 

Had exactly the same problem, did a web search on the cd drive name and found an awful lot of people having the same problem. Basically seems to be a CD drive that will not boot without a firmware upgarde - snag is Teac do not offer one. Dell do offer one for their version of the drive (may not be USB) but it did not work on mine when I tried it. Ended up doing a USB install as described in the Windoxs XP installation thread.

 

i'll give it a try, thanks.

 

a) First of all, be sure to connect your USB CD/DVD-Drive directly to your AAO (from what I experienced from other netbooks - an USB-Hub can cause such boot trouble).

b) Double check that the media within the drive is already bootable

c) I read some postings, that the USB-slots on the left side causes boot problems - so try othe USB-slots on your machine to verify that

HTH