Z3-605-UR20 boot from cdrom info freedos

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it seems that the disk on my Z3-605-UR20 is failing - I had trouble booting and finally was able to force chkdsk in recovery. It found one bad sector on windows\system32\config\SOFTWARE - registry out of all files....

i am back online but Seagate disk tools for windows is failing various tests and recommends running seagate disk tools for DOS.

It comes as a bootable ISO from seagate. I burned the CD (twice) but nothing I do (boot order in bios, F12 menu) causes Acer to recognize this cd as bootable.

At the same time i can boot a dell laptop with this cd without any issues.

Any suggestions on what I can do here to get the seagate tools to run? Why wont acer/bios see the cdrom as bootable?

 

PS the warranty on my computer expired unfourtunately... and seagate recognizes the serial as "integrator" disk and wont touch it....

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the solution from another thread - disable secure boot in authentication and enable CSM in boot menu - worked for recognizing and booting fromt the CD.

unfourtunately once booted - the seagate program does not see the drive or controller (probably a driver issue).

If anything has any suggestions - perhaps a bios option change to make the drive visiable? 

 

thanks!