1 Topic by nassau62

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Topic: LiveCD won't boot in my Dell Inspiron 8000

I need to enlarge the C: partition on my internal hard drive so I can finish reinstalling my programs and files. 

I've copied gparted-livecd-0.2.5-5.iso to a CD & set my Dell Inspiron 8000 to boot from a CD. 

When I put in the CD, the laptop will not boot from it.  [My neighbor's new IBM Thinkpad won't boot from it either.] 

What am I doing wrong? 

I need to know ASAP, for I must pay my bills! 

Thanks for any help and/or advice.

2 Reply by Patrick Verner

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Re: LiveCD won't boot in my Dell Inspiron 8000

You just copied the iso file onto the cd didn't you? smile

An iso file is a disk image. You must create a cd from the disk image. All cd burning apps have this option.

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3 Reply by nassau62

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Re: LiveCD won't boot in my Dell Inspiron 8000

MANY THANKS!!!.  I was dumb as you realized. 

Now I can boot the CD.  smile