I must be missing something, I am a long time IFW user and have never had any issues creating IFL boot discs until last night. I decided to upgrade to the latest version of IFW/IFL and create a new IFL boot disc. I tried the process on two different laptops - both 64-bit machines (never tried them before this), one was running Win7 and the other Win8. Both gave the same results - I would get to the "insert bland disc" prompt and it just kept repeating. I tried 3 different blank (CDs) in each machine but none of them would get past repeating the prompt. I had VCD installed on the Win7 machine and tried creating a virtual blank CD with the same results.
Eventually I gave up and installed IFW2.92 on a 16-bit desktop (Win7) and it quite happily allowed me to create an IFL boot disk - both virtual and "real".
What am I missing? Why wouldn't the process work with the 64-bit laptops? It's gotta be something simple - it just isn't in my knowledge base
Peter,
I use SD cards for IFL. It boots faster than a CD.
It takes little time to create the bootable SD card on
my Win 7 X64 laptop. I do make sure the install code is
entered on creation.
I have no idea why you could not create a bootable CD, though.
Mary
On 11/11/2014 4:29 PM, Thunderbolt wrote:
> I must be missing something, I am a long time IFW user and have never
had any issues creating IFL boot discs until last night. I decided to
upgrade to the latest version of IFW/IFL and create a new IFL boot disc.
I tried the process on two different laptops - both 64-bit machines (
never tried them before this), one was running Win7 and the other Win8.
Both gave the same results - I would get to the "insert bland disc" prompt
and it just kept repeating. I tried 3 different blank (CDs) in each machine
but none of them would get past repeating the prompt. I had VCD installed
on the Win7 machine and tried creating a virtual blank CD with the same
results.
>
> Eventually I gave up and installed IFW2.92 on a 16-bit desktop (Win7) and
it quite happily allowed me to create an IFL boot disk - both virtual
and "real".
>
> What am I missing? Why wouldn't the process work with the 64-bit laptops?
It's gotta be something simple - it just isn't in my knowledge base
>
> 
>
> Thanks for the help and a great product!
>
> Peter
>
>
insert the blank disk and let it draw in the tray. If it bumps it out,
close manually, wait about 15 seconds and press enter. Ensure those discs
are blank. Ensure you don't have a CD software installed conflicting. Has
nothing to do with x64 windows.
"Thunderbolt" wrote in message news:8948@public.image...
I must be missing something, I am a long time IFW user and have never had
any issues creating IFL boot discs until last night. I decided to upgrade to
the latest version of IFW/IFL and create a new IFL boot disc. I tried the
process on two different laptops - both 64-bit machines (never tried them
before this), one was running Win7 and the other Win8. Both gave the same
results - I would get to the "insert bland disc" prompt and it just kept
repeating. I tried 3 different blank (CDs) in each machine but none of them
would get past repeating the prompt. I had VCD installed on the Win7 machine
and tried creating a virtual blank CD with the same results.
Eventually I gave up and installed IFW2.92 on a 16-bit desktop (Win7) and it
quite happily allowed me to create an IFL boot disk - both virtual and
"real".
What am I missing? Why wouldn't the process work with the 64-bit laptops?
It's gotta be something simple - it just isn't in my knowledge base
I have 3 laptops - 2 of them high end gaming machines (both 64-bit), none of them have the capability to "draw in the tray", I have never seen a laptop that did...
I seriously doubt I have any "CD software installed conflicting" - the laptop with Win8 has Chrome, COMODO and Cyberlink video editing software, nothing else. I don't think any of these qualify as conflicting software.
I tried on my 3rd laptop (my daughter was finally taking a break from Sims3) - it is a 32-bit machine running Win 7 and I was able to create an IFL boot disc straight away.
So in summary, 4 computers, 2 x 32-bit and 2 x 64-bit. I can create IFL boot disks on the 32-bit machines and it fails on the 64-bit machines.
it's something on those machines or the drives - x64 windows is what most
people are using - it doesn't have to do with it being x64 windows.
"Thunderbolt" wrote in message news:8954@public.image...
I have 3 laptops - 2 of them high end gaming machines (both 64-bit), none of
them have the capability to "draw in the tray", I have never seen a laptop
that did...
I seriously doubt I have any "CD software installed conflicting" - the
laptop with Win8 has Chrome, COMODO and Cyberlink video editing software,
nothing else. I don't think any of these qualify as conflicting software.
I tried on my 3rd laptop (my daughter was finally taking a break from
Sims3) - it is a 32-bit machine running Win 7 and I was able to create an
IFL boot disc straight away.
So in summary, 4 computers, 2 x 32-bit and 2 x 64-bit. I can create IFL boot
disks on the 32-bit machines and it fails on the 64-bit machines.
