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Old 11-13-2008, 04:00 PM   #1 (permalink)
 
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I have set my bios to have my CD Drive to boot first. When I put a bootable CD in my cd rom drive my system boots to my desktop and I can't figure out why.

Can someone please help out finding out why?

Here is the link Partition Logic - Installation from which I downloaded partition logic which I unzipped and then used poweriso to burn it. I also, tried gparted but that wouldn't work either. I tried my windows install cd and that WORKED.

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Old 11-13-2008, 04:59 PM   #2 (permalink)
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since the windows cd worked, i would say the issue is with the burn.

i usually use The Official ImgBurn Website for my burns


you could try the cds in another computer to be sure
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make sure your cd drive is first in the boot order, or go into the boot menu to select it. If that doesn't work, then it sounds like a bad burn
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