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Can't boot from DVD
On Mar 7, 6:12*pm, Paul wrote:
Des wrote: Sorry meant Connecting the HDD back. it ignored the DVD. Can you connect the HDD to a USB adapter ? http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16812816014 Can you plug in the HDD, *after* the DVD starts to boot, using the USB adapter. If you get the timing right, perhaps the software on the DVD, will "see" the hard drive. If the hard drive was SATA, you could also consider an ESATA approach, as that support hot plugging of drives. So that would be an alternative, if the thing you're attempting to do, doesn't like the drive when USB connected. ESATA enclosure, with it's own SATA to ESATA plate, ESATA cable, power adapter and so on. Set the BIOS for the SATA port to AHCI perhaps. http://images17.newegg.com/is/image/newegg/17-145-167-S04?$S640W$ http://images17.newegg.com/is/image/newegg/17-145-167-S05?$S640W$ In other words, find a way to connect the hard drive, after the DVD has started to boot... * * Paul Ok Thanks guys for all your help. Went into bios and disabled HDD from boot sequence hopping that I could get Norton ghost DVD up and running but it still detected it. Is this a main board virus as it doesn't make sense? If I could wipe my C partition (windows only) then it would have to rely on the DVD ??? If I could change the bootable partition to D: then it might fail and go back to the DVD ??? MUST be a virus. Can't think of anything else. Going grey now. |
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Can't boot from DVD
On Mar 7, 6:20*pm, Des wrote:
On Mar 7, 6:12*pm, Paul wrote: Des wrote: Sorry meant Connecting the HDD back. it ignored the DVD. Can you connect the HDD to a USB adapter ? http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16812816014 Can you plug in the HDD, *after* the DVD starts to boot, using the USB adapter. If you get the timing right, perhaps the software on the DVD, will "see" the hard drive. If the hard drive was SATA, you could also consider an ESATA approach, as that support hot plugging of drives. So that would be an alternative, if the thing you're attempting to do, doesn't like the drive when USB connected. ESATA enclosure, with it's own SATA to ESATA plate, ESATA cable, power adapter and so on. Set the BIOS for the SATA port to AHCI perhaps. http://images17.newegg.com/is/image/newegg/17-145-167-S04?$S640W$ http://images17.newegg.com/is/image/newegg/17-145-167-S05?$S640W$ In other words, find a way to connect the hard drive, after the DVD has started to boot... * * Paul Ok Thanks guys for all your help. Went into bios and disabled HDD from boot sequence hopping that I could get Norton ghost DVD up and running but it still detected it. Is this a main board virus as it doesn't make sense? If I could wipe my C partition (windows only) then it would have to rely on the DVD ??? If I could change the bootable partition to D: then it might fail and go back to the DVD ??? MUST be a virus. Can't think of anything else. Going grey now. What I probably didn't make clear was that. The PC works fine. I need to go back to an old ghost image. If this was a Mobo virus, it would have taken the mobo out all together. Maybe if I get a link to a bios upgrade ?? running out of ideas now. |
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Can't boot from DVD
Des wrote:
On Mar 7, 5:07 pm, wrote: wrote: On Mar 7, 3:49 pm, wrote: On 3/7/2011 6:06 AM, Des wrote: Hi. Have I got some kind of motherboard virus or something. I do have kaspersky. I can't get my PC to boot of either of my DVD drives. I have disconnected one and tried that. They do work and one is brand new. Auto insert works fine. Can't remember last time I needed it. Thanks Desmond. You might need to go into the motherboard BIOS settings and place one of the DVD's as the first boot device in the boot order list, ahead of any hard drive(s). On some BIOS removing the hard drive from the BIOS list of boot devices entirely can force the motherboard to look for other devices to boot from, like the DVD. I have built this PC myself. I have got in the bios Quick boot enabled Boot sequence SATA DVD Floppy HDD I had an IDE and a SATA DVD. I switched them around. Now I only have the SATA. The sequence is correct. I just don't understand this. Do you have the SATA controllers set to IDE or Standard mode? It probably won't Boot if it is set to RAID or AHCI mode. Cheers! -- Graham Website -http://www.thedeathzone.free-online.co.uk Main board is an Asus M2V MX SE Don’t have raid set. Don’t know what “Do you have the SATA controllers set to IDE or Standard mode?” means Could this be a virus as my detector didn’t pull up anything? Don’t think it could be a virus. Could it do something like this? How about testing with only the DVD drives connected? Maybe the BIOS is doing something with the hard drive during POST, which allows the virus to do it's thing. Maybe this is the solution. Could this happen? I see the LED flashing at boot up then stopping. I press F8 during post to get a bios boot screen on my Asus board. Here you can designate which device to boot from. it will only list three devices at most. ESC on the other hand gets into the bios to make changes (in your case) the boot order. CD/DVD should be listed first in the boot order, USB (or floppy if you have one) second and hard drive last. John |
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Can't boot from DVD
On 3/7/2011 12:39 PM, Des wrote:
On Mar 7, 6:20 pm, wrote: On Mar 7, 6:12 pm, wrote: Des wrote: Sorry meant Connecting the HDD back. it ignored the DVD. Can you connect the HDD to a USB adapter ? http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16812816014 Can you plug in the HDD, *after* the DVD starts to boot, using the USB adapter. If you get the timing right, perhaps the software on the DVD, will "see" the hard drive. If the hard drive was SATA, you could also consider an ESATA approach, as that support hot plugging of drives. So that would be an alternative, if the thing you're attempting to do, doesn't like the drive when USB connected. ESATA enclosure, with it's own SATA to ESATA plate, ESATA cable, power adapter and so on. Set the BIOS for the SATA port to AHCI perhaps. http://images17.newegg.com/is/image/newegg/17-145-167-S04?$S640W$ http://images17.newegg.com/is/image/newegg/17-145-167-S05?$S640W$ In other words, find a way to connect the hard drive, after the DVD has started to boot... Paul Ok Thanks guys for all your help. Went into bios and disabled HDD from boot sequence hopping that I could get Norton ghost DVD up and running but it still detected it. Is this a main board virus as it doesn't make sense? If I could wipe my C partition (windows only) then it would have to rely on the DVD ??? If I could change the bootable partition to D: then it might fail and go back to the DVD ??? MUST be a virus. Can't think of anything else. Going grey now. What I probably didn't make clear was that. The PC works fine. I need to go back to an old ghost image. If this was a Mobo virus, it would have taken the mobo out all together. Maybe if I get a link to a bios upgrade ?? running out of ideas now. I'm about out of ideas myself. If Paul's idea of using a function key to set the boot order during the actual boot up does nothing. The actual "F" key that brings up the manual boot override screen varies and does not exist in all BIOS/motherboard versions. About the only thing I have not seen suggested is to reset the BIOS to factory default using a motherboard jumper or removing the AC power cord for a couple of minutes and then removing/replacing the motherboard battery. I just noticed that you are trying to use a "Ghost" DVD to boot from, have you tried a windows install CD/DVD or some other known good bootable disk like a Live Linux distribution or instead of the Ghost disk? |
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Can't boot from DVD
On Mar 8, 1:41*am, GlowingBlueMist
wrote: On 3/7/2011 12:39 PM, Des wrote: On Mar 7, 6:20 pm, *wrote: On Mar 7, 6:12 pm, *wrote: Des wrote: Sorry meant Connecting the HDD back. it ignored the DVD. Can you connect the HDD to a USB adapter ? http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16812816014 Can you plug in the HDD, *after* the DVD starts to boot, using the USB adapter. If you get the timing right, perhaps the software on the DVD, will "see" the hard drive. If the hard drive was SATA, you could also consider an ESATA approach, as that support hot plugging of drives. So that would be an alternative, if the thing you're attempting to do, doesn't like the drive when USB connected. ESATA enclosure, with it's own SATA to ESATA plate, ESATA cable, power adapter and so on. Set the BIOS for the SATA port to AHCI perhaps. http://images17.newegg.com/is/image/newegg/17-145-167-S04?$S640W$ http://images17.newegg.com/is/image/newegg/17-145-167-S05?$S640W$ In other words, find a way to connect the hard drive, after the DVD has started to boot... * * *Paul Ok Thanks guys for all your help. Went into bios and disabled HDD from boot sequence hopping that I could get Norton ghost DVD up and running but it still detected it. Is this a main board virus as it doesn't make sense? If I could wipe my C partition (windows only) then it would have to rely on the DVD ??? If I could change the bootable partition to D: then it might fail and go back to the DVD ??? MUST be a virus. Can't think of anything else. Going grey now. What I probably didn't make clear was that. The PC works fine. I need to go back to an old ghost image. If this was a Mobo virus, it would have taken the mobo out all together. Maybe if I get a link to a bios upgrade ?? running out of ideas now. I'm about out of ideas myself. *If Paul's idea of using a function key to set the boot order during the actual boot up does nothing. *The actual "F" key that brings up the manual boot override screen varies and does not exist in all BIOS/motherboard versions. About the only thing I have not seen suggested is to reset the BIOS to factory default using a motherboard jumper or removing the AC power cord for a couple of minutes and then removing/replacing the motherboard battery. I just noticed that you are trying to use a "Ghost" DVD to boot from, have you tried a windows install CD/DVD or some other known good bootable disk like a Live Linux distribution or instead of the Ghost disk? I can enter the bios. I have set the correct sequence. This is what happens If I disconnect HDD. then the DVD buts up with Norton ghost. If I connect the HDD. I do not get the message Press any key to boot up from DVD. It goes strait into windows. |
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Can't boot from DVD
On Mar 8, 1:41*am, GlowingBlueMist
wrote: On 3/7/2011 12:39 PM, Des wrote: On Mar 7, 6:20 pm, *wrote: On Mar 7, 6:12 pm, *wrote: Des wrote: Sorry meant Connecting the HDD back. it ignored the DVD. Can you connect the HDD to a USB adapter ? http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16812816014 Can you plug in the HDD, *after* the DVD starts to boot, using the USB adapter. If you get the timing right, perhaps the software on the DVD, will "see" the hard drive. If the hard drive was SATA, you could also consider an ESATA approach, as that support hot plugging of drives. So that would be an alternative, if the thing you're attempting to do, doesn't like the drive when USB connected. ESATA enclosure, with it's own SATA to ESATA plate, ESATA cable, power adapter and so on. Set the BIOS for the SATA port to AHCI perhaps. http://images17.newegg.com/is/image/newegg/17-145-167-S04?$S640W$ http://images17.newegg.com/is/image/newegg/17-145-167-S05?$S640W$ In other words, find a way to connect the hard drive, after the DVD has started to boot... * * *Paul Ok Thanks guys for all your help. Went into bios and disabled HDD from boot sequence hopping that I could get Norton ghost DVD up and running but it still detected it. Is this a main board virus as it doesn't make sense? If I could wipe my C partition (windows only) then it would have to rely on the DVD ??? If I could change the bootable partition to D: then it might fail and go back to the DVD ??? MUST be a virus. Can't think of anything else. Going grey now. What I probably didn't make clear was that. The PC works fine. I need to go back to an old ghost image. If this was a Mobo virus, it would have taken the mobo out all together. Maybe if I get a link to a bios upgrade ?? running out of ideas now. I'm about out of ideas myself. *If Paul's idea of using a function key to set the boot order during the actual boot up does nothing. *The actual "F" key that brings up the manual boot override screen varies and does not exist in all BIOS/motherboard versions. About the only thing I have not seen suggested is to reset the BIOS to factory default using a motherboard jumper or removing the AC power cord for a couple of minutes and then removing/replacing the motherboard battery. I just noticed that you are trying to use a "Ghost" DVD to boot from, have you tried a windows install CD/DVD or some other known good bootable disk like a Live Linux distribution or instead of the Ghost disk? I have also tried other bootable DVDs like windows. I do not get the option Hit any key to boot from DVD |
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Can't boot from DVD
Des wrote:
On Mar 7, 3:49 pm, GlowingBlueMist wrote: On 3/7/2011 6:06 AM, Des wrote: Hi. Have I got some kind of motherboard virus or something. I do have kaspersky. I can't get my PC to boot of either of my DVD drives. I have disconnected one and tried that. They do work and one is brand new. Auto insert works fine. Can't remember last time I needed it. Thanks Desmond. You might need to go into the motherboard BIOS settings and place one of the DVD's as the first boot device in the boot order list, ahead of any hard drive(s). On some BIOS removing the hard drive from the BIOS list of boot devices entirely can force the motherboard to look for other devices to boot from, like the DVD. I have built this PC myself. I have got in the bios Quick boot enabled Boot sequence SATA DVD Floppy HDD I had an IDE and a SATA DVD. I switched them around. Now I only have the SATA. The sequence is correct. I just don't understand this. I don't quite follow your setup but, perhaps you have the jumpers set wrong on the IDE devices (both slave, or both master). |
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Can't boot from DVD
On 03/07/2011 11:45 AM, Des wrote:
On Mar 7, 3:49 pm, wrote: On 3/7/2011 6:06 AM, Des wrote: Hi. Have I got some kind of motherboard virus or something. I do have kaspersky. I can't get my PC to boot of either of my DVD drives. I have disconnected one and tried that. They do work and one is brand new. Auto insert works fine. Can't remember last time I needed it. Thanks Desmond. You might need to go into the motherboard BIOS settings and place one of the DVD's as the first boot device in the boot order list, ahead of any hard drive(s). On some BIOS removing the hard drive from the BIOS list of boot devices entirely can force the motherboard to look for other devices to boot from, like the DVD. I have built this PC myself. I have got in the bios Quick boot enabled Boot sequence SATA DVD Floppy HDD I had an IDE and a SATA DVD. I switched them around. Now I only have the SATA. The sequence is correct. I just don't understand this. Have you tried disabling 'Quick boot' ? John |
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