laptop cd burner problem

zack141 · 08-24-2009, 12:19 PM

For a while now ive been working on my home bulit desktop pc (A8N-SLI Deluxe mouther board) but I need to flash my bios in it. luckily my pc can flash from cd.
so i whent on burning a dos boot disk when it was finish burning. I then boot the cd and it doesnt work so i put the cd back into my laptop only to notice that the cd is still blank. I tryed many burning softwere (and cds) but still the same thing
nero9,cdburnerxp,imgburn,infra recorder,iso burnerpro,etc.
my laptop model number Compaq presario R3000 AMD
laptop cd burner model number TOSHIBA DVD-ROM SD-R2512

Sorry for my bad english.

**TriggerFinger** · 08-24-2009, 03:34 PM

Can it burn other files into CD?

zack141 · 08-24-2009, 06:15 PM

nope still no luck

DT Roberts · 08-25-2009, 12:02 AM

Did you get the DOS boot disk files from a legitimate site? Try redownloading them from somewhere else.

zack141 · 08-25-2009, 07:01 AM

I tryed many dos boot disk files
it stil dosent whant to burn.

**TriggerFinger** · 08-27-2009, 03:05 PM

If it cannot burn other files as well, then may be the drive itself need replacement.

08-24-2009, 12:19 PM	#1 (permalink)
zack141 Registered User Join Date: Aug 2009 Posts: 5 OS: Windows xp sp3	laptop cd burner problem For a while now ive been working on my home bulit desktop pc (A8N-SLI Deluxe mouther board) but I need to flash my bios in it. luckily my pc can flash from cd. so i whent on burning a dos boot disk when it was finish burning. I then boot the cd and it doesnt work so i put the cd back into my laptop only to notice that the cd is still blank. I tryed many burning softwere (and cds) but still the same thing nero9,cdburnerxp,imgburn,infra recorder,iso burnerpro,etc. my laptop model number Compaq presario R3000 AMD laptop cd burner model number TOSHIBA DVD-ROM SD-R2512 Sorry for my bad english.

08-24-2009, 03:34 PM	#2 (permalink)
TriggerFinger Moderator Hardware Team Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: USA Posts: 11,846 OS: Vista SP1, XP SP3, PCLinuxOS2007	Re: laptop cd burner problem Can it burn other files into CD? __________________ DBAN - Memtest86+ - BartPE - Linux LiveCD - ImgBurn - HDD Diags - Disk Copy HOW TO BURN AN ISO FILE

08-24-2009, 06:15 PM	#3 (permalink)
zack141 Registered User Join Date: Aug 2009 Posts: 5 OS: Windows xp sp3	Re: laptop cd burner problem nope still no luck

08-25-2009, 12:02 AM	#4 (permalink)
DT Roberts Windows Tech Team Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: Massachusetts Posts: 1,186 OS: Windows 7 RTM (x64), Vista SP2, XP Pro, Windows 7, Ubuntu 9.04 My System	Re: laptop cd burner problem Did you get the DOS boot disk files from a legitimate site? Try redownloading them from somewhere else.

08-25-2009, 07:01 AM	#5 (permalink)
zack141 Registered User Join Date: Aug 2009 Posts: 5 OS: Windows xp sp3	Re: laptop cd burner problem I tryed many dos boot disk files it stil dosent whant to burn.

08-27-2009, 03:05 PM	#6 (permalink)
TriggerFinger Moderator Hardware Team Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: USA Posts: 11,846 OS: Vista SP1, XP SP3, PCLinuxOS2007	Re: laptop cd burner problem If it cannot burn other files as well, then may be the drive itself need replacement. __________________ DBAN - Memtest86+ - BartPE - Linux LiveCD - ImgBurn - HDD Diags - Disk Copy HOW TO BURN AN ISO FILE