Wednesday, September 20, 2017

Unable to boot from windows 7 dvd



I'm trying to install windows 7 on my computer.



I've downloaded the boot image from microsoft and burned it to a dvd



The dvd is not a valid boot device in my computer. I've tried the dvd on several computers, it works everywhere for boot.




I've also tried to use a usb stick version of the boot image, it also fails. I can boot from images since I can run windows xp at boot.



I don't really know where to look now



edit *
I've also updated BIOS


Answer



I finally installed XP on the computer to burn the dvd from that dvd burner



then it booted (mostly) like a charm




no clue why the usb device never booted


No comments:

Post a Comment

hard drive - Leaving bad sectors in unformatted partition?

Laptop was acting really weird, and copy and seek times were really slow, so I decided to scan the hard drive surface. I have a couple hundr...