Having got a problem booting up a Dell Inspiron 2500 laptop, I've taken advice from elsewhere on Tspot to test the memory with memtest86+, among other things.
The laptop has a floppy drive so I tried creating a floppy version first but with no result, so I checked the disk on another pc and it worked ok.
However, not knowing if the bios was setup for floppy or cd first, I tried to make a cd version.
I downloaded the iso file and burned it first on my Toshiba laptop running XP2, using the installed xp burning prog.
As this didn't work on any of my systems( I did reset the boot up order for each in turn) I concluded that the xp burner may not do the necessary.
So I tried re burning with Nero Express, using it to produce a data copy.
This doesn't work in any of my systems either, so I'm at a loss as to how to make this cd.
I've read several other posts looking for an answer, but haven't found one yet.
Grateful for any help,
John
The laptop has a floppy drive so I tried creating a floppy version first but with no result, so I checked the disk on another pc and it worked ok.
However, not knowing if the bios was setup for floppy or cd first, I tried to make a cd version.
I downloaded the iso file and burned it first on my Toshiba laptop running XP2, using the installed xp burning prog.
As this didn't work on any of my systems( I did reset the boot up order for each in turn) I concluded that the xp burner may not do the necessary.
So I tried re burning with Nero Express, using it to produce a data copy.
This doesn't work in any of my systems either, so I'm at a loss as to how to make this cd.
I've read several other posts looking for an answer, but haven't found one yet.
Grateful for any help,
John