unrecognized CD drive

jkirby65 · 2016-03-18 17:58:24

Hello,

I had BL running dual boot with Windows 10 on a Lenovo T400 laptop. It was working great, but I screwed it up trying to install a third OS. So I have to reinstall everything. I installed Windows 10 and made a bootable USB with BL on it, but during the install I get something like "installation CD not found", right after I select the language/keyboard layout (so, at the very beginning). Has anything changed in the Debian installer? I was able to install easily on this very same machine not long ago.

Thanks for your help. I want my beloved Bunsen back!!!

Jim

damo · 2016-03-18 18:09:00

...and made a bootable USB with BL on it

How did you make it?

Hopefully you followed the advice linked to on the BL Installation page (Write usb) and didn't use unetbootin. The error is a common one if you used that method.

Last edited by damo (2016-03-18 20:16:33)

jkirby65 · 2016-03-19 02:49:44

Thanks for your response. I created the bootable USB two ways--- once with rufus and once with universal-USB-installer (is that what you mentioned). In the past, I use dd and it worked great. But now I don't have a linux distro so I had to use something under Windows 10. So you think it is in the way I burned the ISO?

Thanks!

damo · 2016-03-19 03:30:37

From the Debian wiki link:

Additionally to the method above for Linux systems, there is also the win32diskimager program available, which allows writing such bootable USB flash drives under Windows. Hint: win32diskimager will apparently only list input files named *.img by default, while the Debian images are named *.iso. Change the filter to *.* if you use this tool.
Please note, that Debian advises not using unetbootin for this task. It can cause difficult-to-diagnose problems with booting and installing, so is not recommended.

Head_on_a_Stick · 2016-03-19 09:00:12

jkirby65 wrote:

I had to use something under Windows 10

From Windows, I would recommend using USBWriter to transfer the image to the USB stick.

https://sourceforge.net/projects/usbwriter/

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