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October 18th, 2011 - 01:24 pm ET by Gordon | Report spam
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I really don't know where to go with this, so I thought someone on here
might be able to help.
I have a Netbook (Toshiba NB100) that has no optical drive. I have a
Liteon external USB DVD/CD RW drive.
I am trying to install XP on the Netbook.
The netbook consistently refuses to boot from the XP CD. It either just
flips into the current OS (Ubuntu) or gives the dreaded "Can't find
NTLDR" error.
And yet - it will boot from an Ubuntu disk perfectly well, AND if I plug
this external drive into my Windows 7 machine, (another Toshiba
Satellite laptop) that machine will boot quite properly from the XP CD
in the same external drive!!!!
Can anyone cast any light on what on earth is going on?
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#1 Ed Cryer
October 18th, 2011 - 01:59 pm ET | Report spam
On 18/10/2011 18:24, Gordon wrote:
I really don't know where to go with this, so I thought someone on here
might be able to help.
I have a Netbook (Toshiba NB100) that has no optical drive. I have a
Liteon external USB DVD/CD RW drive.
I am trying to install XP on the Netbook.
The netbook consistently refuses to boot from the XP CD. It either just
flips into the current OS (Ubuntu) or gives the dreaded "Can't find
NTLDR" error.
And yet - it will boot from an Ubuntu disk perfectly well, AND if I plug
this external drive into my Windows 7 machine, (another Toshiba
Satellite laptop) that machine will boot quite properly from the XP CD
in the same external drive!!!!
Can anyone cast any light on what on earth is going on?



Have a good look at your Netbook hard drive; from Ubuntu, that is.
What size is it? How partitioned? Any sign of a Windows folder?

Ed
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#2 Gordon
October 18th, 2011 - 02:03 pm ET | Report spam
In article <j7kerg$v9u$, says...

On 18/10/2011 18:24, Gordon wrote:
> I really don't know where to go with this, so I thought someone on here
> might be able to help.
> I have a Netbook (Toshiba NB100) that has no optical drive. I have a
> Liteon external USB DVD/CD RW drive.
> I am trying to install XP on the Netbook.
> The netbook consistently refuses to boot from the XP CD. It either just
> flips into the current OS (Ubuntu) or gives the dreaded "Can't find
> NTLDR" error.
> And yet - it will boot from an Ubuntu disk perfectly well, AND if I plug
> this external drive into my Windows 7 machine, (another Toshiba
> Satellite laptop) that machine will boot quite properly from the XP CD
> in the same external drive!!!!
> Can anyone cast any light on what on earth is going on?

Have a good look at your Netbook hard drive; from Ubuntu, that is.
What size is it?



80 GB

How partitioned?



One partion

Any sign of a Windows folder?



Nope

How would that impact on booting from a bootable CD?
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#3 Char Jackson
October 18th, 2011 - 02:35 pm ET | Report spam
On Tue, 18 Oct 2011 18:24:09 +0100, Gordon
wrote:

I really don't know where to go with this, so I thought someone on here
might be able to help.
I have a Netbook (Toshiba NB100) that has no optical drive. I have a
Liteon external USB DVD/CD RW drive.
I am trying to install XP on the Netbook.
The netbook consistently refuses to boot from the XP CD. It either just
flips into the current OS (Ubuntu) or gives the dreaded "Can't find
NTLDR" error.



Repeated attempts yield TWO sets of results? When given the same
input, computers are supposed to provide the same results every time.
The netbook seems to have a problem with consistency.

And yet - it will boot from an Ubuntu disk perfectly well,



Are you sure it's booting from the Ubuntu disc, or is it simply
booting from the internal drive (which also contains Ubuntu)?

AND if I plug
this external drive into my Windows 7 machine, (another Toshiba
Satellite laptop) that machine will boot quite properly from the XP CD
in the same external drive!!!!
Can anyone cast any light on what on earth is going on?



Sounds like a config issue or other problem with the Netbook. Is there
a BIOS update that addresses an issue related to booting from an
external drive? Is there any BIOS update at all? Sometimes release
notes are not complete.


Char Jackson
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#4 Ed Cryer
October 18th, 2011 - 02:38 pm ET | Report spam
On 18/10/2011 19:03, Gordon wrote:
In article<j7kerg$v9u$, says...

On 18/10/2011 18:24, Gordon wrote:
I really don't know where to go with this, so I thought someone on here
might be able to help.
I have a Netbook (Toshiba NB100) that has no optical drive. I have a
Liteon external USB DVD/CD RW drive.
I am trying to install XP on the Netbook.
The netbook consistently refuses to boot from the XP CD. It either just
flips into the current OS (Ubuntu) or gives the dreaded "Can't find
NTLDR" error.
And yet - it will boot from an Ubuntu disk perfectly well, AND if I plug
this external drive into my Windows 7 machine, (another Toshiba
Satellite laptop) that machine will boot quite properly from the XP CD
in the same external drive!!!!
Can anyone cast any light on what on earth is going on?



Have a good look at your Netbook hard drive; from Ubuntu, that is.
What size is it?



80 GB

How partitioned?



One partion

Any sign of a Windows folder?



Nope

How would that impact on booting from a bootable CD?




The problem is with what the CD finds in your system; and it's found
something it objects to.

Ed
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#5 Gordon
October 18th, 2011 - 03:12 pm ET | Report spam
In article <j7kh3j$fpc$, says...

On 18/10/2011 19:03, Gordon wrote:
> In article<j7kerg$v9u$, says...
>>
>> On 18/10/2011 18:24, Gordon wrote:
>>> I really don't know where to go with this, so I thought someone on here
>>> might be able to help.
>>> I have a Netbook (Toshiba NB100) that has no optical drive. I have a
>>> Liteon external USB DVD/CD RW drive.
>>> I am trying to install XP on the Netbook.
>>> The netbook consistently refuses to boot from the XP CD. It either just
>>> flips into the current OS (Ubuntu) or gives the dreaded "Can't find
>>> NTLDR" error.
>>> And yet - it will boot from an Ubuntu disk perfectly well, AND if I plug
>>> this external drive into my Windows 7 machine, (another Toshiba
>>> Satellite laptop) that machine will boot quite properly from the XP CD
>>> in the same external drive!!!!
>>> Can anyone cast any light on what on earth is going on?
>>
>> Have a good look at your Netbook hard drive; from Ubuntu, that is.
>> What size is it?
>
> 80 GB
>
>> How partitioned?
>
> One partion
>
>> Any sign of a Windows folder?
>
> Nope
>
> How would that impact on booting from a bootable CD?
>

The problem is with what the CD finds in your system; and it's found
something it objects to.

Ed



Eh? The CD isn't accessing the system when it boots
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