Often CDs and DVDs made on one system will not work on another system. This
is especially true when using +or-RW disks or if they are written at their
maximum speed or when the manufacturer of the optical drive used on the
systems are different.
"Manfred Heuer" <manfred_heuer@xxxxxx> wrote in message
news:u6csfAk#JHA.1380@xxxxxx
Quote:
> Hello again!
>
> First I thank you all for your help!
>
> I must admit that the question has been held to common and was simplified
> too much.
> I just diskjockeyed a bit at home - first time, it seems, with a
> VISTA-DVD, and the result: it boots fine, although my computer is pretty
> akin to those at work and even a year older.
>
> And then I remembered why and when I was confused about:
>
> It was all about a Windows 7 DVD! I made that DVD at work (for I have no
> writer at home), tried the DVD in that same Computer, and it functioned.
> Then at home, I could not boot from that DVD: There was just the message:
>
> "CDBOOT: Cannot boot from CD Code 5".
>
> And with this Windows 7 DVD I made a test at work a bit later: only the
> Computers from last summer (on one of them I made the DVD) could boot from
> that DVD,
> and the Computers bought in 2006 did not - they generated just the same
> message "CDBOOT: ..." (all motherboards have an AMI-BIOS).
> All the Computer from 2008 have the same writer ..., perhaps the DVDs do
> not run in other DVD-Drives properly ... but that is just guessing ...
>
> Excuse my simplifying - I really thought, that DVDs did generally not boot
> on those machines. So my thinking does seem to be a bit weak.
>
>
> Greetings Manfred
>
>
>
> "Manfred Heuer" <manfred_heuer@xxxxxx> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
> news:ee2svpN#JHA.1376@xxxxxx Quote:
>> Hello!
>>
>> Why do older computers not boot from a DVD-Drive?
>>
>> Is it the DVD-Drive or the mainboard (with its BIOS or the onboard
>> controller)?
>>
>> Thanks Manfred
>