Burning Live CD

[Charlie Kravetz]

On Mon, 3 Nov 2008 06:45:30 -0700
"Allen Meyers" <texas.chef94 at gmail.com> wrote:

> In an effort to make burning a live CD a reality going to give this
> one more shot.
> 1. It does not recognize that there is a blank CD inserted
> 2. It will play both a music CD as well as a data (computer based
> learning CD)
> In desperation I went to live chat on HP support and was fortunate
> enough to get someone who understood English and was not outsourced
> to India. What follows good bad or indifferent is what he outlined I
> do and what I did (It still does not recognize blank media.
> This exchange I am about to relate obviously will only be understood
> by the really experienced user.  I suredo not understand what I did.*
> I do know it helped absolutely nothing*
> *I cannot afford a new PC, but would it help to purchase an external
> device as I do insist on being able to burn live CD or my fun in
> Linux will come to an end.*
> I reset BIOS, reinstall cd/dvd drivers for checking the issue. All
> that was really done here was the assurance that yes was highlighted
> to assure I was back to my default BIOS settings.
> 
> Went to run typed in devmgmt.msc
> Right click on CD/DVD drive icon listed under "CD-Rom/DVD-Rom" and
> select "Un-install".Once the device is un-installed it may prompt you
> to restart the notebook PC but I recomment not to restart the
> notebook PC and continue performing the below steps:
> Start Registry Editor Click Start, click Run, type regedit, and then
> click OK. Registry Editor starts.  Delete the Upper Filters registry
> entry
> 
> 1. In Registry Editor, expand My Computer, and then expand
> HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE.
> 2. Expand SYSTEM, and then expand Current Control Set.
> 3. Expand Control, and then expand Class.
> 4. Under Class, click {4D36E965-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318}.
> 5. In the right pane (topic area), click Upper Filters.
> Note An Upper Filters.bak registry entry may also appear. To delete
> the UpperFilters registry entry, you must click Upper Filters and not
> Upper Filters.bak.
> 6. On the Edit menu, click Delete.
> 
> 7. When you receive the following message, click Yes to confirm the
> deletion of the Upper  Filters registry entry:
> Are you sure you want to delete this value?
> 
> The Upper Filters registry entry is removed from the
> {4D36E965-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318} registry subkey.
> Note Do not exit Registry Editor. You must have this program for the
> next step.
> Step 3: Delete the Lower Filters registry entry
> 1. In Registry Editor, expand My Computer, and then expand
> HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE.
> 2. Expand SYSTEM, and then expand Current ControlSet.
> 3. Expand Control, and then expand Class.
> 4. Under Class, click {4D36E965-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318}.
> 5. In the right pane (topic area), click Lower Filters.
> Note An LowerFilters.bak registry entry may also appear. To delete the
> LowerFilters registry entry, you must click LowerFilters and not Lower
> Filters.bak.
> 6. On the Edit menu, click Delete.
> 7. When you receive the following message, click Yes to confirm the
> deletion of the LowerFilters registry entry:
> Are you sure you want to delete this value?
> The Lower Filters registry entry is removed from the
> {4D36E965-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318} registry subkey.
> 8. Exit Registry Editor.
> Step 4: Restart the computer
> 

So you are burning the cd in Windows, right.

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Charlie Kravetz 
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