JenVTX Posted January 16, 2014 ID:778546 Share Posted January 16, 2014 Have an older Dell laptop w/win-xp sp3. Trying to do a backup to a usb hard drive before wiping hard disk.I made cd of Redo Backup and Recovery .exe, but it will not boot from the cd. Installed the .exe on a usb stick but it will not boot either. I put the win-xp cd in the drive and it boots. Why won't the computer boot with the other media? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Root Admin AdvancedSetup Posted January 16, 2014 Root Admin ID:778577 Share Posted January 16, 2014 What did you use to burn the ISO image? The file is: redobackup-livecd-1.0.4.iso and is about 250MB If you look on the CD you burned do you see just that file or hundreds of files? If you only see 1 file then that is the reason. You did not burn it as an ISO image but as a data file which it's not. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
JenVTX Posted January 16, 2014 Author ID:778675 Share Posted January 16, 2014 Ok, that's the problem, thank you.Incidentally, I had another problem with the cd-rw.....could not write files to this drive in windows explorer, but went to MS support and ran fix-it, and now it works. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Root Admin AdvancedSetup Posted January 16, 2014 Root Admin ID:778803 Share Posted January 16, 2014 Great, glad you got things sorted out. Cheers Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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