can't get memtest to boot!

rykoryko new york
edited July 2005 in Science & Tech
I have lost my old memtest bootable cd that worked perfectly fine. It was a couple of versions out of date, but was fine on my older hardware.

Decided to just get an updated version and create a new cd from the .iso. Ok, great, did that. But everytime i try to boot from it, it just says boot sector not found.

I swear i have done this a bunch of times the same exact way, but now it just doesn't see the boot sector. I have the boot order correct in BIOS, and i have been creating the cd by burning the .iso file after extracting it from the zip file. CD-r too.

What's going on? Have i missed something?

Comments

  • rykoryko new york
    edited July 2005
    well it seems my cd-burner is crapping out on me... tried updating the firmware, but no love. i have wasted about 10 cd's so far. :bawling:

    then a brilliant idea hit me! try another burner! tried burning it on my laptop and it works!

    note to self: try other computers before posting questions... :rolleyes:
  • dragonV8dragonV8 not here much New
    edited July 2005
    Short-Media's "Self Help" to the rescue. ;D
  • profdlpprofdlp The Holy City Of Westlake, Ohio
    edited July 2005
    I'm glad you got it going.

    Just in case it's not really the burner, you're not burning the .iso file as a Data disc, are you? If your file association for iso files got messed up and it didn't burn it as an image, you would end up with a non-bootable CD containing just a copy of the iso file. Try using Windows Explorer and see if the disc(s) you made contain a number of files, or just a single iso file.

    If it's your burner, at least they are fairly inexpensive these days... :p
  • rykoryko new york
    edited July 2005
    prof i think you are on to something....on my main rig , i have ultraISO installed i think it is somehow interfering with the default .iso file association, or at least how they are handled.

    no ultraISO on my lappy, so no problems. gonna try un-installing ultraISO and see if it matters.

    p.s. YES! i am using nero and going to "burn image" under recorder. not just creating a data disc...
  • rykoryko new york
    edited July 2005
    yep...ultraISO screwed me--actually it's my fault. problem was that while troubleshooting i must have deleted the boot folder or something, b/c the .iso i had was missing the boot sector.

    new .iso from memtest.org and problem has gone bye-bye. burner seems ok too, b/c beside my new memtest cd, i just burned an audio cd to test it out and it seems fine. :)

    so the whole problem was that i was working with a corrupted .iso file. keep in mind that i was the one that broke the .iso in the first place. :shakehead :wtf:
  • profdlpprofdlp The Holy City Of Westlake, Ohio
    edited July 2005
    ryko wrote:
    ...so the whole problem was that i was working with a corrupted .iso file. keep in mind that i was the one that broke the .iso in the first place. :shakehead :wtf:
    Well, at least a few blank discs are cheaper than a new burner.

    Glad you got it sorted out. :)
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