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R51 recovery disks; CDR101 Not ready reading drive X
R51 recovery disks; CDR101 Not ready reading drive X
I burnt myself five of the R51 recovery disks, but they don't seem to work. I get an error
CDR101: Not ready reading drive X
Abort, Retry, Fail?
No matter which options I do nothing works and I get a command prompt C:\... The only thing I can punch in with any sort of response is command.com which isn't really useful..
Any ideas?
Thanks
CDR101: Not ready reading drive X
Abort, Retry, Fail?
No matter which options I do nothing works and I get a command prompt C:\... The only thing I can punch in with any sort of response is command.com which isn't really useful..
Any ideas?
Thanks
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Re: R51 recovery disks; CDR101 Not ready reading drive X
Buy/borrow another drive comes to mind...
Or try a CD cleaner... (I doubt if that will do the trick though).
Or try a CD cleaner... (I doubt if that will do the trick though).
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Re: R51 recovery disks; CDR101 Not ready reading drive X
No, its a software issue. I have three cd drives that fit, and another boot disk works fine
Re: R51 recovery disks; CDR101 Not ready reading drive X
Not in my experience.wkw1 wrote:No, its a software issue.
Are you booting from Rescue & Recovery disk?
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Cheers,
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One FlexView to rule them all: A31p
Abused daily: T520, X200s
PMs requesting personal tech support will be ignored.
Cheers,
George (your grouchy retired FlexView farmer)
One FlexView to rule them all: A31p
Abused daily: T520, X200s
PMs requesting personal tech support will be ignored.
Re: R51 recovery disks; CDR101 Not ready reading drive X
From disk 1, yes
Re: R51 recovery disks; CDR101 Not ready reading drive X
Disk1 is not bootable, is it?
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Re: R51 recovery disks; CDR101 Not ready reading drive X
It is. When I boot from the cd, it says Starting windows 98, stuff stuff stuff and then eventually stops at the CDR101: Not ready reading drive X error
Re: R51 recovery disks; CDR101 Not ready reading drive X
That's a bad/dirty disk or a flaky media drive. Period.
...Knowledge is a deadly friend when no one sets the rules...(King Crimson)
Cheers,
George (your grouchy retired FlexView farmer)
One FlexView to rule them all: A31p
Abused daily: T520, X200s
PMs requesting personal tech support will be ignored.
Cheers,
George (your grouchy retired FlexView farmer)
One FlexView to rule them all: A31p
Abused daily: T520, X200s
PMs requesting personal tech support will be ignored.
Re: R51 recovery disks; CDR101 Not ready reading drive X
Don't think so.
I've tried a usb disk drive, and it doesn't get as far. I think this is because it doesn't have the correct drivers for it? At the bit where it says "drive x has the correct media" it instead says "drive x has no media"
Regarding the internal drives, all of them get to the same part and fail.
I've made a video, but I think I'm just going to reburn the disk.
I've tried a usb disk drive, and it doesn't get as far. I think this is because it doesn't have the correct drivers for it? At the bit where it says "drive x has the correct media" it instead says "drive x has no media"
Regarding the internal drives, all of them get to the same part and fail.
I've made a video, but I think I'm just going to reburn the disk.
Re: R51 recovery disks; CDR101 Not ready reading drive X
You're free to think whatever you choose, we live in "the land of the free"...
With that said, I've seen that error hundreds of times and it *always* was a bad/dirty disk, flaky media drive or a combination of the two...
With that said, I've seen that error hundreds of times and it *always* was a bad/dirty disk, flaky media drive or a combination of the two...
...Knowledge is a deadly friend when no one sets the rules...(King Crimson)
Cheers,
George (your grouchy retired FlexView farmer)
One FlexView to rule them all: A31p
Abused daily: T520, X200s
PMs requesting personal tech support will be ignored.
Cheers,
George (your grouchy retired FlexView farmer)
One FlexView to rule them all: A31p
Abused daily: T520, X200s
PMs requesting personal tech support will be ignored.
Re: R51 recovery disks; CDR101 Not ready reading drive X
Well, turns out it was a software problem. From the 5 isos I had, neither was the Rescue/Recovery disk. I downloaded that and burnt it, seemed to work. Also downloaded 7 other isos. Burnt them as the machine asked for it.. Until I got to disk 7, where it kept asking me for disk 7...
Didn't manage to work. I don't mind. Just was doing it to see how it worked. I put a backup image of the machine I made earlier on it and all is well.
Didn't manage to work. I don't mind. Just was doing it to see how it worked. I put a backup image of the machine I made earlier on it and all is well.
Re: R51 recovery disks; CDR101 Not ready reading drive X
I'm pretty sure that I've asked earlier in this thread whether you were booting from a Rescue and Recovery disk...
Had you been doing that, and getting the aforementioned error, it would've been exactly what I said.
Now, you can choke it to the most common cause of all troubles large and small - human error.
Finally, just as FYI:
This particular set is 7 disks + R&R for a grand total of 8. All are needed for a successful recovery.
If you figure out which one you're missing, I'll be happy to burn it for you.
Had you been doing that, and getting the aforementioned error, it would've been exactly what I said.
Now, you can choke it to the most common cause of all troubles large and small - human error.
Finally, just as FYI:
This particular set is 7 disks + R&R for a grand total of 8. All are needed for a successful recovery.
If you figure out which one you're missing, I'll be happy to burn it for you.
...Knowledge is a deadly friend when no one sets the rules...(King Crimson)
Cheers,
George (your grouchy retired FlexView farmer)
One FlexView to rule them all: A31p
Abused daily: T520, X200s
PMs requesting personal tech support will be ignored.
Cheers,
George (your grouchy retired FlexView farmer)
One FlexView to rule them all: A31p
Abused daily: T520, X200s
PMs requesting personal tech support will be ignored.
Re: R51 recovery disks; CDR101 Not ready reading drive X
I had all eight, it just seemed to cut out after it finished disk #7, and restarted and went about asking for disk 1.
It isn't much big a deal though. I have XP running and all the drivers are fine.
It isn't much big a deal though. I have XP running and all the drivers are fine.
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