I know laptops' DVDs have no jumpers located at the back of the drive, but are there any? something like master/slave configuration? or that your BIOS doesn't detect the new tray, an update (flashing) of the BIOS may fix it....MAY.
On Feb 28, 3:38 pm, Matt C <[email protected]> wrote: > I want to load a linux distro on my old Latitude Notebook. The > original modular bay DVD was dead so I snagged another on ebay. New > DVD works fine in Windows but will not boot from it. My old DVD used > to boot fine. Boot config is set to boot from DVD/CD before HDD. > When I boot, after BIOS load, I get a message which says "Secondary > Hard Disk Drive 0 not found". Inspection of the BIOS config shows it > identifies the hardware in the modular bay as 0 MB HDD. There is no > ability to set this in the BIOS, it just displays what it has > identified in the I am using the latest BIOS release. USB boot is not > an option on this machine and other methods of Linux installation, > while they would work, don't answer my needs. I need the ability to > boot from DVD to also be able to restore my hard drive using a backup/ > restore program. I tried to roll the BIOS back to a previous version > (prior to an update which says they fixed CD booting issues) but the > BIOS update refuses to rollback to an earlier version. Any ideas? --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Computer Tech Support" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/computer-tech-support?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
