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I also had problems, for a while, using old cd-rw drive, via ide-usb adapter (stripped out of a portable hd enclosure). finally figured out that it was ignoring the boot order in bios, if I removed the bootable usb stick, it would then boot off the CD also, this is off a powered usb hub, not sure if...

thats and easy one... install a CF card (I got a 32gb one yesterday, $80) .. my computer-properties-advanced-environment variables>> point the temp file location to the CF card