[dba-Tech] DVD drive in ancient computer
rockysmolin bchacc.com
rockysmolin at bchacc.com
Thu Jan 16 14:10:27 CST 2020
Can you boot another of your computers with that CD?
Is the CD drive you're trying to boot from internal or external?
r
-----Original Message-----
From: dba-Tech [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Arthur Fuller
Sent: Thursday, January 16, 2020 11:45 AM
To: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues
Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] DVD drive in ancient computer
It's not the CDs that are the problem. It's the drive itself, I think.
On Thu, Jan 16, 2020 at 12:04 PM rockysmolin bchacc.com <
rockysmolin at bchacc.com> wrote:
> Perhaps the CD you are using is not a bootable CD or has the boot track
> damaged. Suggest you try another CD.
>
> r
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: dba-Tech [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf
> Of Arthur Fuller
> Sent: Thursday, January 16, 2020 7:49 AM
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> Subject: [dba-Tech] DVD drive in ancient computer
>
> Said box runs WIndows 7. It's an HP Millenium, must be more than 10 years
> old. probably older.
>
> The system will not boot from the CD/DVD drive. When booted from the hard
> drive and then I check devices and select the CD/DVD drive in question, it
> is working properly. Except that it isn't.
>
> Any suggestion
>
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