Anyone know what this error means?
in this day and age there is no reason for such cryptic error messages.
All I was trying to do was to burn a Rescue CD


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Tools/Rescue Media/CD/Proceed
It is a CD-R and I've reformatted the disk so it's clean.
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I am a bit confused Bob; CD-R are write once, so it cannot be reformatted. It would have to be CD-RW.
Long time since I created optical recovery media. I recall that there can be a problem of the iso image being to large to be written to the disk - had to use DVD instead. (That was Linux rescue media; cannot remember if I used Windows RE or Windows PE on CD/DVD). However in that case I would expect waring that it would not fit on the CD.
I see the size of the Linux iso is 670MB and the size of CD-RW is about 650MB, so insufficient space may be the reason. CR-R maxes out at about 700MB.
Edit: The error message says the device is busy, which could possibly indicate that it cannot write to the drive.
Ian
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Sorry, it was R/W. I was able to create the bootable media on a thumb drive.
It would be nice if the error messages were understandable by normal people.
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bob hatcher wrote:It would be nice if the error messages were understandable by normal people.
+1
Glad you managed to create recovery media - USB stick will be far more responsive.
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