Hi John,


Tks for your advice.

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> 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


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