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error when booting up from a bootable cd
Name: gowani Date: August 14, 2002 at 10:09:31 Pacific
Comment:
i have a drive image bootable cd and it works perfectly on my PC but on my laptop it gives me an i/o error, replace disk and press any key?
do i have to do something with the bios ? any help appreciate it thanks
Name: Petit Jean Date: August 15, 2002 at 09:28:45 Pacific
Reply:
Bootable CD's are known to work better if you use a diskette or floppy to make the image that has the Win 9x with fat 32 or more recent system files on it. Are you using the same partition system on both units like fat 32 or HPFS only on C drive? Some XP systems don't use fat 32 anymore: you would not be able to access HPFS with FAT 32 boot disk. Good luck.
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Response Number 2
Name: HPFS ? Date: August 15, 2002 at 10:26:38 Pacific
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HPFS replaced fat partitions on OS/2 and NTFS allows big HD's running Windows XP without the need for fat 32 partitions.
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Response Number 3
Name: gowani Date: August 15, 2002 at 14:41:49 Pacific
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well, all my partitions/HD are fat32. its just that when boot with the cd on my laptop and i press the option to load drive image from cd to ram it gives me the "replace invalid disk...." error
but when i do the same thing on my PC it works just fine.
i think it might be that my ram is shared with my video card? but not sure
thanks guys any other suggestions would be grateful
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Response Number 4
Name: Petit Jean Date: August 16, 2002 at 08:39:09 Pacific
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CD-ROM drive on your portable is probably unable to recognize the standard or book used on the CDR. The CD-ROM bios and electronic circuitry may be at fault here but there is probably no solution. If you know a friend with a laptop, ask for a simple boot test. Good luck.
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Response Number 5
Name: gowani Date: August 16, 2002 at 09:46:04 Pacific
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