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July 8th, 2004 11:00
Bootable CD rom is not working!!!!!
Hi,
I have a Latitude x300 laptop (Tag no CSB501J). It does not come with a floppy disk drive. I need to download the image on the PC using Ghost 7.5. To use Ghost I usually create a Ghost boot diskette. As this laptop does not have a FDD I have made a bootable CD-ROM disk. I created a bootable cd rom disk using the bootable floppy disk I would have used if the laptop had a FDD using NERO and Easy CD Creator. I have gone into the BIOS and made the cd rom the 1st bootable device. When the laptop tries to read the CD rom it comes up with symbols and freezes. Why cant my Latitude X300 read my bootable CD ROM disk?
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time112852
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July 8th, 2004 16:00
cf01bps
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July 16th, 2004 15:00
Hi All,
Just received a shipment of Latitude D600's and have the same cd boot up problem. I need to load our softare build via cd. I created the software image with Ghost 7.0 I used Easy Cd Creator 5.3.1 to create the bootable cd and burn the image file. My bootable cd's always result in a black screen with a line of symbals at the top. I also tried using NERO Burning Rom 5.5.10 to make the cd's. Just this morning I tried updating the BIOS. Nothing solves the problem. I have made many, many bootable cd image sets in the past (mainly for Latitude CPX and Latitude C600) without problem. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated!
NOTE: All the bootable cd's that I have made for the D600 WILL work in our older laptops!
Dagk
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July 23rd, 2004 09:00
dnbrinson
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July 23rd, 2004 09:00
lzybne
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July 25th, 2004 10:00
I am using x300 myself too, and I have a similar problem when i tried to boot with partition magic 8.0.1 multilanguage disc. it works on the Latitude D600 before, but then X300 doesnt work. I think its the CDROM itself as when i try to load the disc, parititon magic quit on me because MSCDEX001 driver doesnt work.... something like that. its a dos problem so, yeah.
WiG
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July 29th, 2004 02:00
x300 uses USB CD driver called EXTCD.SYS, while D600 uses standard IDE CD driver. MSCDEX won't load if the proper cd driver has not been loaded.
cf01bps
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August 20th, 2004 17:00
Hello all,
I believe that I have found a simple answer to the frustrating problem of getting the "line of symbals" when trying to boot from a bootable cd. I have had success by goiong into the BIOS and changing the cd drive to be the first bootable device. I guess with the newer laptops they use USB interface (unlike older models that use IDE for CD and Floppy). USB is "picky" on how it reads drives. Laptop does not like it when floppy drive is first device and then try to boot off cd that is imulating a floppy disk.
Hope this helps out!
Chris
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August 27th, 2004 12:00
I am also having boot problems with Ghost CD's.
Burned using: Roxio 5.3.5.1
OS's: MS DOS 6.22, Windows 95, Windows 98
All boot to my Ghost Menu, but all freeze as soon as the SYS driver for the CD loads.
I have tired on D500's, D800's, and X300's. All of them without FDD's, but if I use a USB FDD and boot the CDROM drive from the Floppy everything works.
riojad
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December 14th, 2004 21:00
This driver adds the ability to access USB and IEEE-1394 optical drives (e.g. CD-ROM/CD-RW/DVD- ROM) from DOS. For example, to access an optical drive in a Dell D/Bay, D/Dock module bay, or IEEE- 1394 connection.
Use this driver in your CONFIG.SYS to access your optical drive from DOS. Example:
device=extcd.sys /d:extcd001
Configure AUTOEXEC.BAT with MSCDEX.EXE. Example:
mscdex.exe /d:extcd001 /m:15 /l:r