TEAC Cdrom, LG Cdwriter + Ghost image on CD + boot

[Messerschmitt]

Hello. I have recently maked a disk image with Norton Ghost 2003.

5 CD's to be more exact.

The problem is that if I want to read my CD with the TEAC Cd-rom, it won't read it. Its trying and trying and trying to read but no progress.

Only my LG Cd-writer is reading them, the same cd-writer on witch I have burned them.

1. Can anyone give me any info why this happens? Any way my TEAC could read it?

Now I want to run the disk images from boot so I can test them in case windows dosent start up.

But at the boot menu I only got floppy, HDD 1, HDD 2, CD-Rom.

When selecting CD-Rom it dosent do anything for a while then skips to windows and goes as normal in desktop.

2.How can I activate my LG-Writer so I can boot from it? At the BIOS settings I have only found CD-Rom, any other option didn't seemed to me the right one.

My LG is set on slave.

Thanks a lot

[techniquefreak]

Hi Messerschmitt ...

Have you tried updating your cd-writer's firmware ... ? That might solve some of the problem ... Also I'd recommend you switch your slave/master around so that the cd-writer is set to master and the cd-rom is set to slave ...

When this is done you should set bios settings regarding the drives to <auto> except you might need to set the boot order to 1:cd-writer 2:cd-rom or hdd 3:hdd or cd-rom

Hope this can be of help to you.

[Messerschmitt]

The thing is BIOS detects by itself the boot order.

I have 2 HDD's, he detects them both.

When I come to the boot screen I have:

1. Floppy

2. HDD 1 (my first harddisk, master)

3. HDD 2 (my second harddisk, slave)

4. CD-ROM (I dont know witch but I think the TEAC, because as I said it didnt booted form the LG)

Opening the case is almost impossible :/

And I am not sure how to update the LG firmware...

P.S. What I have discovered is that only the Disk 1 is not read by teac, other 4 disks that contains the rest of the image are ok.

Edited July 23, 2005 by Messerschmitt