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Can't load disc - please help
Thanks, Paul. I think I understand alot better now. T2 |
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Can't load disc - please help
On Sun, 1 Feb 2015 11:36:59 -0800, Tom Thompson wrote:
You just have to be alert to unchecking imgburn's desire to load the ASK search and toolbar during its installation. T2 Assuming that they don't expand that in the future (or since you last looked). I assume every D/L, even not-free ones, might be loaded. I did get fooled once and allow crapware to get in. Luckily, it wasn't my computer :-) BTW, you even have to watch the download page, not just the install screens... -- Gene E. Bloch (Stumbling Bloch) |
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Can't load disc - please help
On Sun, 1 Feb 2015 12:06:03 -0800, Tom Thompson wrote:
I have been following this thread with great interest, Gene. In trying to test my 32G memory from Paul's advise in the "unrecognized memory" thread, I downloaded the memtest iso as paul suggested and then tried to figure out what to do with it. First attempt of just copying the iso to a blank CD didn't get me a boot-disk as I had assumed that was needed. OK, how about opening the iso with 7-zip and copying the result to a CD? Nope. Well OK, how about lookinjg inside gthe folders of the original iso... hmmm, there is an img file. Copy that to the disk too. Nope. OK, go get ImgBurn as Paul suggested. Install but be sure to uncheck the ASK search and tool bar stuff during installation. OK, not for ImgBurn. Quite a complicated little program compared to letting Windows just copy to the CD. Got to go to the source line in ImgBurn and SEARCH for the iso you want to get bootable on your CD. OK, not as to destination. ImgBurn kept insisting it would use somewhere on my C drive as a destination. Kept changing it to D:, my optical drive at which point the ImgBurn would ask if I would rather Write. Oh well, how do I write? Fumble around ... oh, there is is check write. Ok there it goes on the blank CD. Leave it in and restart and YES, it boots to the memtest program. Summary: ImgTest is free and looks to have lots of capability, but doesn't make it obvious as to how to make a bootable iso. I assume that if I were to download a Win7 or Win8 iso from Digital River I would need to use the same procedure to make a bootable window install disk? T2 Dave-UK just gave MrPounder a pointer to the other common CD burner program: https://cdburnerxp.se/en/home Maybe you're able to understand that one (but it's not all that different). I happen to like ImgBurn better, but that proves nothing :-) But remember: burning the ISO to a CD or DVD is the only way to get it to work as a boot disk. -- Gene E. Bloch (Stumbling Bloch) |
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Can't load disc - please help
On Mon, 2 Feb 2015 15:20:28 -0800, MrTsquare wrote:
In article , lid says... On Sun, 1 Feb 2015 12:06:03 -0800, Tom Thompson wrote: I have been following this thread with great interest, Gene. In trying to test my 32G memory from Paul's advise in the "unrecognized memory" thread, I downloaded the memtest iso as paul suggested and then tried to figure out what to do with it. First attempt of just copying the iso to a blank CD didn't get me a boot-disk as I had assumed that was needed. OK, how about opening the iso with 7-zip and copying the result to a CD? Nope. Well OK, how about lookinjg inside gthe folders of the original iso... hmmm, there is an img file. Copy that to the disk too. Nope. OK, go get ImgBurn as Paul suggested. Install but be sure to uncheck the ASK search and tool bar stuff during installation. OK, not for ImgBurn. Quite a complicated little program compared to letting Windows just copy to the CD. Got to go to the source line in ImgBurn and SEARCH for the iso you want to get bootable on your CD. OK, not as to destination. ImgBurn kept insisting it would use somewhere on my C drive as a destination. Kept changing it to D:, my optical drive at which point the ImgBurn would ask if I would rather Write. Oh well, how do I write? Fumble around ... oh, there is is check write. Ok there it goes on the blank CD. Leave it in and restart and YES, it boots to the memtest program. Summary: ImgTest is free and looks to have lots of capability, but doesn't make it obvious as to how to make a bootable iso. I assume that if I were to download a Win7 or Win8 iso from Digital River I would need to use the same procedure to make a bootable window install disk? T2 Dave-UK just gave MrPounder a pointer to the other common CD burner program: https://cdburnerxp.se/en/home Maybe you're able to understand that one (but it's not all that different). I happen to like ImgBurn better, but that proves nothing :-) But remember: burning the ISO to a CD or DVD is the only way to get it to work as a boot disk. And here is a link to the straight forward step-by-step directions on how to use ImgBurn to make a bootable CD/DVD from an iso that I needed. http://neosmart.net/wiki/display/G/B...s+with+ImgBurn T2 Send it to Tom Thompson, not me. I have no trouble with ImgBurn, as I thought I indicated above. Of course, I haven't used it since last Thursday. Maybe I forgot how since then :-) -- Gene E. Bloch (Stumbling Bloch) |
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We are one.... Desktop/laptop names T2 |
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Can't load disc - please help
On Mon, 2 Feb 2015 17:59:45 -0800, Tom Thompson wrote:
We are one.... Desktop/laptop names T2 I had to laugh (at myself) once I figured out what you said. Unless you like to talk to yourself, I guess my advice wasn't very useful :-) But also - congratulations on figuring it out. -- Gene E. Bloch (Stumbling Bloch) |
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:) T2 |
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