Concerned CD/DVD drive might fail - what should I do to prepared for this?

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Getting ready to wipe the hard drive with Acronis DriveCleaner and restore the drive from an image file stored on USB hard drive; concerned CD/DVD drive will fail.

Made bootable CD with Rescue Manager; placed the CD in CD/DVD drive and rebooted – Windows loaded from HDD. Connected USB CD/DVD drive; put bootable CD into external drive – Windows loaded from HDD. Put CD back into the internal CD/DVD drive and during Startup pressed F12 key. A Boot Menu appeared with three options: CD-ROM/DVD-ROM, PATA HD, USB HD. I clicked on CD-ROM/DVD-ROM and the Acronis loader started, and I entered Acronis True Image Home 2009. This means the CD worked but the BIOS had limited functionality.

When the internal CD/DVD drive was accessed it groaned. What If - I wipe the hard drive clean and the internal CD-ROM/DVD-ROM drive fails to boot the system? Is there something I should do now to prepared for this?

KC

Fri, 11/06/2009 - 22:06
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Order a replacement cd/dvd drive pronto. And , if your system will boot from a usb flash drive, you could also make a bootable flash drive with the True Image components on it.

Fri, 11/06/2009 - 22:49
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Do you have the BIOS set to boot the DVD drive first?

Does the BIOS support booting from the external (USB) CD/DVD drive?

Does the BIOS support booting from a flashdrive? Since it had the USB hard drive in the boot menu, I suspect it might.

If the DVD drive fails, you should be able to purchase another one (they're pretty cheap), install it and continue with the restore. Another option is to use a spare/old CD/DVD drive if you have one around.

Fri, 11/06/2009 - 22:50
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I configured the Boot Sequence to boot from CD-ROM/DVD-ROM. Then I changed the sequence to boot from Removable media first. It both cases the system booted from the hard drive.

The BIOS lists the following six options and allows me to set the sequence.
1. CD-ROM/DVD-ROM
2. Removable media
3. USB Storage stick
4. PATAN HD
5. USB HD
6. Boot to network

Sat, 11/07/2009 - 15:22
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I made a bootable Falsh drive. I pressed F12 during Start-up and a boot menu was dispalyed. However it did not have an option to boot from the flash drive.

Sat, 11/07/2009 - 22:12
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Did you have a flash drive plugged in when you tried this test?

Sat, 11/07/2009 - 16:05
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My system BIOS is capable of booting from USB devices, however USB devices are not being recognized when the system boots. Once the system has booted they are accessible.

What if I connected a cross-over cable to the ethernet port could I boot the notebook from another PC?

Tue, 11/10/2009 - 04:31
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What size flashdrive are you using? Some computers (especially older ones) have problems with larger flashdrives.

Also, some computers will only boot flashdrives formatted in a certain way (USB-HDD, USB-FDD, USB-ZIP, etc.).

Is there a BIOS update available for your computer? If so, is better support for booting flashdrives a updated feature?

Tue, 11/10/2009 - 07:04
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Hi MudCrab,

Thank you for your reply. I appreciate your interest in my questions very much.

I am moving on to setting up another notebook where I plan to run multiple OSs; I have an image file of this notebook's hard drive stored off-machine. It was running XP/Office 2003.

The notebook I am now working on is running Vista/Office 2007; I am in the process of making a image file of its hdd; plan to upgrade to Windows 7, 32-bit, Ultimate edition, and after making the upgrade make an image file.

Hopefully by tomorrow I will have Windows XP/Office2003, Windows Vista/Office 2007, and Windows 7 all running using Disk Director Suite 10 with OS Sector installed to switch OSs.

Life Is Good - I Love Acronis!

KC

Tue, 11/10/2009 - 19:25
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My Flash Drive is 4.7GB; have installed TIH 2010 on it and used it to boot a different computer.
KC

Tue, 11/10/2009 - 19:22