Hi John, Tks for your advice. - snip - > You could look at the BIOS settings for your SATA - do you have the > option of setting it to 'legacy' mode? Only 2 Access Modes available: Large/Auto None of them can work. > Also have you thought about using an ordinary IDE CD-ROM drive to > boot > from? > They sit about on shelves in many places, or you can cannibalise one > from an old PC. I'll turn over the store room later for an obsolete CDRom. Now I successfully boot the SL LiveCD on another 64bit PC running on an IDE DVD Writer. Speed is a little bid slower but at least it works for me. B.R. Stephen L Send instant messages to your online friends http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com