Brian,
Thanks for the info. All of you called this one. Another point for the
collective!
A true case of dumb pilot error!
More inline below.
At 08:39 12/20/2007 -0500, you wrote:
Darrik's Boot n Nuke is what I use when I want to make sure a HD is wiped.
http://dban.sourceforge.net/
I'll go get this. I am suddenly aware of tools I do not have and/or better
versions of my now very old tools that do not work any longer. Sheesh!
I think there really are two problems here, which Tharin pointed out.
The first is that the HD was not completely wiped and the boot sector
is still there telling it to run the NTLDR, which is the boot loader
for Windows.
Yes, this is completely true!
A separate issue is the CD-ROM not booting. And I'm confused about
that as is Tharin. Usually when you make a bootable CD-ROM from
scratch you need to not only put the data files on it but also give it
a boot sector to burn. Usually you can download these boot sectors
from several different places. Lots more info here:
http://www.nu2.nu/bootcd/
And another tool for my kit. Thanks for the Christmas gift!
But, in your case you were using an image. The people that made the
image should have already put the boot sectors into the image. So
either they forgot (possible) or instead of creating a CD FROM an
image you burned an image TO a CD. The difference is that with the
former the CD has all the files that were inside the ISO whereas with
the latter you get just the ISO file on the CD. Big difference.
Yes, this is also correct! But Nero appears not to process an ISO file
properly and I did not know this. And, in truth, I am a Nero N00b also. The
dashboard gave me two choices /burn data to a CD/ and /make a bootable
CD/. Neither of these choices produced a correct CD of the ISO I have.
Once I went and got the ISOBurn proggy from Tharin's link, the ISO got
burned properly and I am now playing with FreeNAS and my pile of junk!
As Tharin said, you are looking for a File -> Open -> Image dialog. I
know on some versions of Nero there is one of the little "open file"
icons on the toolbar. Unfortunately I no longer use Nero so I can't
give you the exact location.
I will go look deeper into Nero, but just for background. Think I'll really
go get the CDBurnXP from your link below! Another gift!!! :)
I'm using CD Burn XP which is a free program will all the burning
functionality of Nero in a lot lighter package:
http://cdburnerxp.se/
Best,
Duncan
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