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

bledd · 23 Oct 2009 at 10:43

check the drive is plugged in

m4cc45 · 23 Oct 2009 at 10:44

Sounds like its set to the wrong boot device still. I'd suggest double checking all the settings in the BIOS.

M.

monkeyspank · 23 Oct 2009 at 11:07

Might be a silly question, but are you pressing any key 'to boot from CD/DVD' when prompted?

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

rexehuk · 23 Oct 2009 at 14:15

Not sure what hardware you got... but you have to set HARD DISK order then set BOOT DISK order on Asus motherboards.

Two seperate menus.

reflux · 23 Oct 2009 at 14:17

rexehuk said:
Not sure what hardware you got... but you have to set HARD DISK order then set BOOT DISK order on Asus motherboards.

Two seperate menus.

Yeah, this trips me up now and then.

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

SpaghettiOs · 24 Oct 2009 at 19:51

Sounds like a dodgy SATA controller on the motherboard, or the drives are plugged in incorrectly.

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.