Cannot get OCUK bundle to boot from Windows 7 DVD

Ulysses · 23 Oct 2009 at 10:35

Hi,

I am posting on behalf of my brother who bought a ""Titan Nero" AMD Athlon II X2 Dual Core 245 2.90GHz DDR2 System" bundle from OcUK and I am helping him try to get Windows 7 on which he bought on dvd (Home Premium)

Set first boot device to CD/DVD, but it gives an error:-

Disk boot failure, insert system disk and press Enter

The hard drives are SATA and the bios reports them as an add-in device, the dvd is also sata on a different cable.

Just posting from work so will try and get more detail later. Anyone offer any help?

Patrick

Ulysses · 23 Oct 2009 at 14:09

Thanks for the replies so far. To answer:-

I did a quick check last night of the connections, but worth another check I guess

I had been through all the BIOS settings I could find, but again will do a double check.

There was no prompt to 'press any key to boot from cd/dvd'

I will try unplugging, a few things later and double check the above. I guess as long as I know it 'should' boot from the DVD then thats fine.

Patrick

Ulysses · 24 Oct 2009 at 19:31

I had to hook up an old ide dvd player to boot Windows 7 from. But I am still stuck as the installation could not find any sata hard drives to install on.

Motherboard is a Gigabyte GA-M61PME-S2P

Ulysses · 24 Oct 2009 at 21:23

I had a thought. The driver cd that came with the motherboard wont have windows 7 drivers on it .... would it? Going to download the win7 drivers and try and get the sata drives to show up on installation.