New PC wont recognize w7 disc?

lewis2701 · 7 Mar 2012 at 16:29

Everything's plugged in properly and i have selected the dvd drive to boot first but it says 'reboot and select proper boot device or insert boot media in selected boot device and press a key'?

lrlcr · 7 Mar 2012 at 16:30

Plugged into one of the intel sata ports?

lewis2701 · 7 Mar 2012 at 16:31

lrlcr · 7 Mar 2012 at 16:35

What type of disc???

lewis2701 · 7 Mar 2012 at 16:37

windows 7 home

ThatAsianGuy · 7 Mar 2012 at 16:39

Have you set the bios to CD-rom instead of HDD?

lrlcr · 7 Mar 2012 at 16:40

As in retail disc?

Have you tried from a bootable USB?

lewis2701 · 7 Mar 2012 at 16:42

ThatAsianGuy said:
Have you set the bios to CD-rom instead of HDD?

Yes

lewis2701 · 7 Mar 2012 at 16:43

lrlcr said:
As in retail disc?

Have you tried from a bootable USB?

OEM version and no how would i do that/?

Rusty0611 · 7 Mar 2012 at 17:25

I had something similar when I built my machine. It just recognised it eventually. I changed the boot order to HDD first and then back to CD/DVD ROM drive and it was OK

lewis2701 · 7 Mar 2012 at 17:28

ah okay cheers, cant do much atm as im transferring the disc contents to a pen drive which going to take half hour

ThePengu1n · 7 Mar 2012 at 17:30

My Drive also refuses to recognize W7 discs. I made a bootable USB and it worked a treat, hell of a lot fast too

~Divine~Wind~ · 7 Mar 2012 at 17:36

Mine drive wont recognise Bootable CDs if its on a specfic controller ont he mobo.
If your mobo has more than one SATS controller try connecting to the other one.

lewis2701 · 7 Mar 2012 at 18:01

okay cheers guys

lewis2701 · 7 Mar 2012 at 20:02

Still no avail, anyone got any ideas as to what it could be?

Rusty0611 · 7 Mar 2012 at 20:08

Try removing the HDD(s) from the boot list so that it is just the DVD drive which it can boot from.

lewis2701 · 7 Mar 2012 at 20:30

Rusty0611 said:
Try removing the HDD(s) from the boot list so that it is just the DVD drive which it can boot from.

Didn't work

Rusty0611 · 7 Mar 2012 at 20:31

Does the disc work in another drive? Just to rule out the vague possibility that the disc is unreadable.

Edit: ignore - seen that you were transferring it to a USB boot drive. Did that not work?

lewis2701 · 7 Mar 2012 at 20:32

yes it does

cmndr_andi · 7 Mar 2012 at 20:42

How did you get on with a bootable USB?

Personally, I used this application to make a bootable USB stick from my windows 7 disk and it worked great.

Once the bootable usb stick has been created, plug it in - then go and select the boot device to be the USB stick.

New PC wont recognize w7 disc?

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