Universal344
November 23rd, 2008, 11:14 PM
I recently found an old XP laptop that I want to run Ubuntu on. However the system refuses to boot the live cd and goes directly to booting xp. This is what I've already tried:
-Setting the BIOS to boot CD ROM / DVD ROM before HDD (still booted XP)
-Running the live cd on another pc and checking it for defects (reported disk completely error free)
-Writing the image to a USB drive using the utility on the live cd (did not work on either the laptop or my main computer)
-Upgrading my BIOS (I could not do this because the manufacturer of the BIOS wanted me to download software that many people reported as a scam)
Does anyone know how to make the system boot the live cd? It would be preferable if I didn't have to wipe my HDD of all currently existing data. I suspect I might be able to do it through safer mode with command prompt but I don't know the command.
Thanks for any help you can provide.
-Setting the BIOS to boot CD ROM / DVD ROM before HDD (still booted XP)
-Running the live cd on another pc and checking it for defects (reported disk completely error free)
-Writing the image to a USB drive using the utility on the live cd (did not work on either the laptop or my main computer)
-Upgrading my BIOS (I could not do this because the manufacturer of the BIOS wanted me to download software that many people reported as a scam)
Does anyone know how to make the system boot the live cd? It would be preferable if I didn't have to wipe my HDD of all currently existing data. I suspect I might be able to do it through safer mode with command prompt but I don't know the command.
Thanks for any help you can provide.