SOLVED! - Hard Drive Firmware Update Utility Problem

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ranjit · #1 Post by **ranjit** » Fri Jul 06, 2007 5:22 am

Hi All,

I recently burned a CD with the Harddisk Firmware update. When I tried to boot from CD nothing happened, and the system went through the "normal" boot sequence. I can't understand this situation in spite of changing the boot order and burning the CD ISO correctly. Can someone explain why?

Cheers and best regards,
Ranjit

#2 Post by **Harryc** » Fri Jul 06, 2007 5:55 am

If it was an .iso file you have to burn the 'image to disk' and not do a straight copy.

ranjit · #3 Post by **ranjit** » Fri Jul 06, 2007 6:00 am

What do you mean exactly, Harryc? I have the burned file on disk.

Cheers,
Ranjit

#4 Post by **Harryc** » Fri Jul 06, 2007 6:04 am

What program are you using to burn the disc, Nero? Version?

ranjit · #5 Post by **ranjit** » Fri Jul 06, 2007 6:05 am

#6 Post by **Harryc** » Fri Jul 06, 2007 6:07 am

http://www.bay-wolf.com/burnimage.htm

ranjit · #7 Post by **ranjit** » Fri Jul 06, 2007 6:12 am

That's exactly what I did with the very latest Nero 7 Premium, Harryc. what next?

#8 Post by **Harryc** » Fri Jul 06, 2007 6:20 am

Does it boot up in another machine?

ranjit · #9 Post by **ranjit** » Fri Jul 06, 2007 7:47 am

Well, Harryc, I tried booting in another Dell laptop and in a HP desktop PC and still no dice!

Cheers and best regards,
Ranjit

#10 Post by **Harryc** » Fri Jul 06, 2007 7:59 am

ranjit wrote:Well, Harryc, I tried booting in another Dell laptop and in a HP desktop PC and still no dice!

Cheers and best regards,
Ranjit

Given the above, and assuming that other CD's or DVD's boot ok in your Thinkpad, then you'd also have to assume that either;
1) The .iso file itself is inherently bad, or it did not download correctly(corrupt).
2.) Nero did not create the image correctly.
3.) There is a problem with your CD media (cheap)

SteveS · #11 Post by **SteveS** » Fri Jul 06, 2007 11:10 am

Look at the file(s) on the CD with Windows Explorer. You should see a huge list of files. If there is only a single file, ending with the extension .ISO, you did not load the image, but just copied the ISO file.
With the ISO file on a HD in the computer with the CDROM burning SW, try just double clicking the ISO file. Most burn SW routines know to properly unload the image file.

schimmi · #12 Post by **schimmi** » Fri Jul 06, 2007 1:35 pm

- check the cd contents as SteveS already said.
- try track-at-once instead of disc-at-once (or vice-versa)
- try lowering the burning speed
- clean the lens of your optical drive carefully - my old combo-drive could read discs in windows, but could not boot off any bootable media. cleaning the lens or removing/reinserting the ultrabay drive helped.
- in bios, set the speed of your dvd drive - it defaults to 'normal', try the 'high' setting.
- if possible, boot off an external usb-cd drive.
- on startup, hit "F12" and select the optical drive manually

This is what I'd try

ranjit · #13 Post by **ranjit** » Fri Jul 06, 2007 8:25 pm

Thank you, Harryc, SteveS and Schimmi for all your help and useful comments.

I have managed to boot from CD! Like SteveS said, I had to double click the .iso file.

Cheers and best regards,
Ranjit

SOLVED! - Hard Drive Firmware Update Utility Problem

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