New PC! disk boot failure. insert system disk and press enter

zane99 · 2 Jul 2009 at 11:11

My friend just purchased this from OC: http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=FS-181-OK

He didnt get a OS with it as he has his own bootable CD so i advised he will be able to install it himself. Well apparently not, cant get past this error message:
"disk boot failure. insert system disk and press enter"

Set the priority to the CD-rom drive in the Bios but just cant get it to boot.

I tried the CD on my PC and it works fine.......

ANy help? thanks

zane99 · 6 Jul 2009 at 12:30

HL-DT-STDVD-RAM GH22

is detected in the bios (i assume thats the drive

)

i opened the thing up anyway and everything seems to be in order, i double checked anyway.

my boot menu is F12 from start up and i select CD-ROM from that menu but still nothing.

i dont get the press enter to boot from CD message, it just goes straight to

boot from CD-ROM
INSERT SYSTEM DISK etc...

zane99 · 6 Jul 2009 at 12:41

yep the disk works fine on my other two comps........

zane99 · 6 Jul 2009 at 13:02

mikey6 said:
I had a similar problem - my new pioneer drive could not read the format of the Windows 7 UDF iso disk even tho it read ok in my old XP pc.

I had to copy the files onto a bootable USB stick in the end to get an OS on it

how do i do that?

zane99 · 6 Jul 2009 at 13:16

looks like fun! ill give it a go tonight and post my results. thanks