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Can't boot from CD's?

  • 01-10-2008 10:35am
    #1
    youcancallmeal
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,066 ✭✭✭


    I re-installed windows a few months back and for the first time since then I tried to boot from a CD. Before I re-installed windows I could boot from CD's fine (Linux CD's and the likes). Anyway when I tried this time it wasn't working for any of my bootable CD's. I got the following error when trying to boot samsung's hard drive utility ES-Tool

    "Can't open CD driver CD0001. SHSUCDX can't install.

    Your ram drive is loaded at C:
    Out of memory error
    Bad command or filename    "

    None of my hardware changed after the last re-install so I don't think its that. Anyone got any ideas?


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  • #2
    Morrisseeee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,146 ✭✭✭Morrisseeee


    If you go into your BIOS does it still have the CD drive as your 1st preference of booting into ?


  • #3
    youcancallmeal
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,066 ✭✭✭youcancallmeal


    I didnt check but the way I tried to boot from CD via the boot menu. I'm not at home now but from memory I think the boot order is CD>USB-FDD>Hard Drive.


  • #4
    Snowbat
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,065 ✭✭✭Snowbat


    Sounds to me like a dirty lens causing intermittent reads.

    Can you hear the CD drive spinning up and head movement trying to read the CD?

    Have you tried a lens cleaning disk?


  • #5
    Alun
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,499 ✭✭✭✭Alun


    You do appear to be booting from the CD-ROM or else you wouldn't be seeing that message. That utility appears to be DOS based and somehow the loading of the DOS CD-ROM driver is failing, meaning that SHSUCDX (which is a freeware version of DOS's MSCDEX) can't find it and allocate a drive letter to it.

    If you haven't changed any hardware, is it possible some BIOS settings have changed at all? Maybe some kind of legacy compatibility option for the CD-ROM drive allowing it to be used in DOS?


  • #6
    youcancallmeal
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,066 ✭✭✭youcancallmeal


    Yeah turns out it was something in the BIOS. I went in and changed about 5 or 6 different settings so I'm not sure exactly which one it was.


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  • #7
    Compushed
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    youcancallme>al wrote: »
    Yeah turns out it was something in the BIOS. I went in and changed about 5 or 6 different settings so I'm not sure exactly which one it was.


    Christ. I hate it when that happens. I'd much rather spend ten times longer going in and out of the BIOS changing one thing at a time and find out what the problem is, than go in, change 10 things and have it just work with me none the wiser...


  • #8
    Alun
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,499 ✭✭✭✭Alun


    youcancallme>al wrote: »
    Yeah turns out it was something in the BIOS. I went in and changed about 5 or 6 different settings so I'm not sure exactly which one it was.
    Glad it worked ... whatever it was :) Sometimes the rather ancient DOS based IDE CD-ROM drivers used in these things can be a bit tetchy .. maybe it was a DMA related setting?


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