PC won't boot from CDROM (after.... see inside)

Diss · 22 Apr 2013 at 17:59

Hi

Situation is as follows.

Dual boot win7 / Linux with grub menu at startup.

Swapped out mobo/cpu for new one.

Wouldn't boot.

Formatted drive c and tried agin.

Grub menu comes up but can't boot from CDROM.

Booted into Linux from the grub and it saw the CDROM ok.

Comments
The CDROM is SATA not IDE.
BIOS is set to AHCI(?) not IDE.
I have changed bios to boot from CDROM but to no effect.
When i formatted the original C drive from the command prompt there was no drive D:\

So i reckon the CDROM is not recognised on a normal boot. Is there a problem with first time boots from SATA? Any other BIOS settings i should be considering?

If anyone has any ideas how to fix this that would be much appreciated.

thanks

Diss

Diss · 22 Apr 2013 at 18:08

Thanks for the comments.

I have no bootable USB. Can you get a download to create a bootable USB that i could then run setup.exe to reinstall win7 (assuming the USB boot process recognises a SATA CDROM). Not sure what i would need to do this.

Diss · 22 Apr 2013 at 18:18

Nix said:
http://images2.store.microsoft.com/prod/clustera/framework/w7udt/1.0/en-us/Windows7-USB-DVD-tool.exe

thanks

am downloading now

what exactly does this .exe file do? Is it meant to be run from a working copy of win to put an image onto a USB stick?

Diss · 22 Apr 2013 at 18:35

thanks all
will try that later tonight

cheers

Diss

Diss · 22 Apr 2013 at 18:59

Bacon? said:
Tried changing the ROM from AHCI to IDE?

yep - no luck

Diss · 22 Apr 2013 at 20:23

well.......

its booting and win7 is installing

thanks all

Diss