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704684 2008-09-12 10:23:00 Thats a good question, I used Winimage but its not free.

You do need a floppy tho for those files.

I can send you an email with the zip file I have if u want to give me your email

Or come here tomorrow, and I'll do that for you as well

Whats the brand/model of this USB flash drive BTW?
Speedy Gonzales (78)
704685 2008-09-12 10:31:00 If you have a ISO image and dont burn it correctly it wont work - simply use a free program like ImageBurn (http://www.imgburn.com/) and it will do every thing for you correctly, then you can boot from the DVD. wainuitech (129)
704686 2008-09-12 10:33:00 Normally XP cant read blanks (well cant write to DVD blanks), unless you've installed the Imapi 2 patch / update.


Speedy-you are a genius I just installed the update and am now restarting-I'll tell you in about 5 minutes if it worked or not
Blam (54)
704687 2008-09-12 10:42:00 Hmm, that update should only be needed, if youre going to copy files to DVD, through my computer.

You shouldnt / dont need it, if you've got another program, that can burn ISO's.
Speedy Gonzales (78)
704688 2008-09-12 10:44:00 Tried image burn-says at the bottom "Device not ready (medium not present - tray closed) Burnatonce has a similar error
BTW that IMAPI 2.0 hptfix didn't work
Blam (54)
704689 2008-09-12 10:48:00 I would say its because you need a blank cd not dvd

If you still cant do it, bring the ISO and the laptop here to me in Mt Eden

The Imapi 2 update is ONLY if you use my computer to copy files to a cd or DVD.And you cant do it with ISO's since you have to extract it to cd or dvd.

Not for programs you've installed that do the same thing
Speedy Gonzales (78)
704690 2008-09-12 10:55:00 Sounds like somethings up with the drive - just check something - Right click on DVD/CD drive -> Properties -> Recording ->Make Sure Enable CD Recording on this drive is ticked. wainuitech (129)
704691 2008-09-12 11:01:00 Its ticked-that was one of my first suspicions.
I even enabled the DMA thing
Blam (54)
704692 2008-09-12 11:14:00 Two things I can think of this time of the week - :) Maybe a dirty lens in the Drive if it suddenly stopped reading blanks ( not being able to burn)

OR

Have you installed any programs and this started, including updates - or removed any programs, changed any settings no matter how small they may seem ?
wainuitech (129)
704693 2008-09-13 00:06:00 Probably not the drive problam, quite a few laptops have this problem.
Friend is coming over today, I'll just tell hime to burn it for me.
Oh, and WT, I haven't installed anythign recently, I only just bought this old Portege M300 off TM a few weeks ago.
Blam (54)
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