Cannot get disk to boot.......

doddsy105 · 15 Nov 2009 at 15:33

Hi, having some trouble with my pc at the moment, i cant get a cd to boot from startup. trying to load a new OS onto my system onto a different drive by unplugging my other hard drives. But the disk never boots, sounds like it isnt even scanning the disk and then just stays on a blue screen like theres no signal to the monitor. does anybody have any ideas or any tips. I have tryed loads of things and the cd just wont boot. If you try clicking on the disk from my computer an error message says "setup can not run on this version of the operating system. To install windows please try booting from the install media." . And if i click on the setup.exe on the disk it says "setup.exe is not valid win32 application" .

i have a 160GB which im currently using but want to use my second hard drive with vista but the disk will not boot when ive just got the second hard drive plugged in :confused:

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please can somebody help me?

doggs · 15 Nov 2009 at 15:38

Check your boot order in the bios.

doddsy105 · 15 Nov 2009 at 15:39

it goes CD drive then the hard drive i want it to boot and still no luck

GhostlyPea · 15 Nov 2009 at 16:16

If you want to install from within your old OS you need to use the winnt32.exe file, browse the CD. If it isn't booting from the CD then well...did you make it yourself and is it legit?

- Pea0n

doddsy105 · 15 Nov 2009 at 16:22

i made it myself yeh, its from an ISO image file, and yes its legit, its form msdn site because i at uni i get some OS free etc

GhostlyPea · 15 Nov 2009 at 16:31

How did you burn the .ISO? Did you burn to to be bootable or did you burn it as a data-disk?

- Pea0n

doddsy105 · 15 Nov 2009 at 17:11

im not sure, but they should just boot

GhostlyPea · 15 Nov 2009 at 17:39

An ISO will boot if you burn it as a bootable disk, not if you burn it as a data disk. Re-burn it to a new disk and make sure you select bootable

- Pea0n