Boot CD's won't run

[RegEdit]

Toshiba Satellite A505 laptop - Windows 7 - 64-bit.
The following boot CD's of mine will not load: ERD Commander, Hitachi Drive Fitness Test, Hiren's: PC Check 6.5, Bart PE, Ultimate Boot CD.
The errors I get are either something about being unable to load drivers or it just blue screens. With DFT the hard drive screen just shows <empty> no matter which of the 4 choices I choose (Adaptec, etc).
Memtest 86 works fine.
I tested this PC with Toshiba's test (from the desktop). All hardware is fine.

Any idea why I can't use these boot CD's?

 

[anglian]

What happens if you try to boot from a windows disk?

 

[DCGPX]

Have you tried from an external drive?

Might be a faulty internal drive, assuming your 100% discs ok.

 

[RegEdit]

MemTest86 works fine so the CD player works fine.
I've had this same problem on another computer.

The disks usually work fine. Not a CD problem.

 

[DCGPX]

MemTest86 works fine so the CD player works fine.
I've had this same problem on another computer.

The disks usually work fine. Not a CD problem.

Not necessarily. Dont forget the CDs you mention are large so data further to the edge, it still maybe an internal problem on drive.

If you've an external about try it. One thing - Has it been confirmed drive read everything before all this started?

 

[RegEdit]

Unfortunately I am no longer working on this particular computer, but I'm sure this problem will appear again.

 

[Tekguy]

It sounds like those CDs don't have the correct SATA drivers. I'm about ready to give up on UBCD4WIN. I can't remember the last time it booted on a newer computer, I always get the infamous 0x0000007B stop error blue screen & it's been almost 2 years since a new version of UBCD4WIN has been released so who knows if it ever will be updated again.

 

[KompuKare]

It sounds like those CDs don't have the correct SATA drivers. I'm about ready to give up on UBCD4WIN. I can't remember the last time it booted on a newer computer, I always get the infamous 0x0000007B stop error blue screen & it's been almost 2 years since a new version of UBCD4WIN has been released so who knows if it ever will be updated again.

Indeed it does but in some cases changing SATA mode in the BIOS can get you booting off those CDs. Pity almost every mobo like to call SATA, AHCI, IDE something different :-(

But there's important point: if you end up having to re-install you should set it back to SATA or you'll end up with an OS running the HDDs in snail mode.

 

[RegEdit]

It sounds like those CDs don't have the correct SATA drivers. I'm about ready to give up on UBCD4WIN. I can't remember the last time it booted on a newer computer, I always get the infamous 0x0000007B stop error blue screen & it's been almost 2 years since a new version of UBCD4WIN has been released so who knows if it ever will be updated again.

This!
I think you're right. Indeed I remember 0x0000007B as the stop error.
So is there a way to modify my CD's and slip in these drivers? Or perhaps there's newer, updated ISO's that I need to download? How do you edit the registry offline on these newer computers?

Indeed it does but in some cases changing SATA mode in the BIOS can get you booting off those CDs.

I'll keep that in mind next time.

 

[Tekguy]

This!
I think you're right. Indeed I remember 0x0000007B as the stop error.
So is there a way to modify my CD's and slip in these drivers? Or perhaps there's newer, updated ISO's that I need to download? How do you edit the registry offline on these newer computers?

I'll keep that in mind next time.

UBCD4WIN gets it's drivers from Driverpacks.net. For some reason I thought Driverpacks.net closed or stopped updating their drivers, but I was just at their website & the MassStorage drivers are dated 3/15/2012. Time to update UBCD4WIN

http://users.telenet.be/jtdoom/basetute/BartPE/OverFlow/DPs_BartPE_HelpFile.htm

 

[RegEdit]

UBCD4WIN gets it's drivers from Driverpacks.net. For some reason I thought Driverpacks.net closed or stopped updating their drivers, but I was just at their website & the MassStorage drivers are dated 3/15/2012. Time to update UBCD4WIN

http://users.telenet.be/jtdoom/basetute/BartPE/OverFlow/DPs_BartPE_HelpFile.htm

I wish there was a tutorial for my other boot CD's.

I found an Ultimate Boot CD torrent entitled "Ultimate Boot CD (UBCD) 5.1.1 with AVG January 2012"
Hopefully this one works on Windows 7 64-bit.