[dba-Tech] DVD drive in ancient computer

Arthur Fuller fuller.artful at gmail.com
Fri Jan 17 10:56:18 CST 2020


I guess that I'm terrible at describing ,my situation, So I'll try again.
It's a hardware issue, having nothing at all to do with which particular CD
or DVD is mounted. None of them actually work. When I investigate the drive
itself (via Devices), WIndows reports that it is working properly. The boot
sequence is set up to look at the DVD drive first, and then at C:\.
The system also has another bay for a second DVD drive, and such drives are
cheap, so maybe I should simply install a second DVD drive and set it as
the first in the boot sequence, and see what happens.
Ultimately, there is the junk alternative. Used PCs are incredibly cheap
these days, but there's a nostalgia factor involved, which persists despite
all logic. But as with divorced spouses, comes a time to stop looking in
the rear-view mirror and move on. Perhaps that time has come. There's a
computer museum here in Toronto, so maybe I'll donate her to the cause of
History.

On Thu, Jan 16, 2020 at 3:10 PM rockysmolin bchacc.com <
rockysmolin at bchacc.com> wrote:

> 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
> > To: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues
> > 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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