On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 5:23 PM, Mike Cloaked <mike.cloaked at gmail.com> wrote: > why would a computer with a failed SATA hard > drive be unable to boot from a liveDVD in the optical drive? Perhaps the machine's BIOS was not configured to boot from the optical drive. -- Ted Roche Ted Roche & Associates, LLC http://www.tedroche.com