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[raywilkins]

New to the forum and would like to say hello to everyone first.

Here's my problem i can't boot from my DVD drive, my 2 HDD's and 2 DVD drives are working fine inside windows.

Inside the bios screen they are detected in the right order, and are in the right boot order. I checked the jumpers on them and they seem fine and i haven't touch them since i changed my dvd rewriter 6 months ago and i have booted from a cd since then.

I just booted up the Windows Xp disc on a differnt pc and it worked fine, yet on mine it goes straight to my XP OS.

I was hoping someone could help me out, thanks.


MSI KT6V-LSR (MS-7021)
Athlon XP 2400+
768 MB Ram
Windows XP Home sp3
Maxtor 6Y120L0(master)
Seagate ST3400832A(slave)
HL-DT-ST DVD-RAM GH22NP20(master)
JLMS XJ-HD166S(slave)

[Ex Forum User 3]

Did you install Nero 9  by any chance?
Even if you didn't, and old version of InCD can cause this too.

The problem is upper/lower filters, they are screwed and thus your CD's are missing in action.

Run this tool inside windows: ftp://ftp6.nero.com/tools/General-CleanTool.zip

As for booting, change the boot order in the BIOS, probably set to harddisk first.

If that doesn't solve it, disconnect one of the CD's and test with a single one, maybe one is broken and hinders the other, but that is my last guess.

[Stu]

Did you press F11 at the POST screen to access the boot menu and select the DVD drive to boot from?

[raywilkins]

Thanks for the quick reply, no still using Nero 7 Premium.

[eagle2]

I take it you've tried both drives.