Why wont Vista boot from CD

[Kerplunk]

Im trying to install Vista, but I cant get it to boot from the cd, i have set the bios to 'boot' from cd' but it wont.

However, XP will boot (i tried that as a test)

Anyone help?

 

[gary996]

Make sure you have no other boot device. Disable all but CD

 

[Greenlizard0]

I had lots of weird problems with trying to get Vista Setup to read from the CD - I found that oddly enough taking EVERYTHING out that/unplugging everything except the drive I wanted to boot from.

 

[Kerplunk]

Tried, but still doesnt boot

Comes up with DISK BOOT FAILURE now??

 

[g0cem]

format the driive with your xp disc then see if vista will install on the formatted drive

 

[marc2003]

you do realise vista is a dvd? (sorry for asking but you mention cd in the thread title and your post.... )

 

[Robert]

Set the boot priority correctly?

Do you have more than one drive?

Is it a DVD drive (as Marc suggests)?

 

[Theguy]

More to the point is it an official dvd or is it one that has been vlited / service packed? - if its the case that the copy has had a fiddle with, I would suggest the bootloader hasnt been copied correctly.

 

[thegoonden]

Or, you burned the DVD, with your burner software thinking it's a CD. I've done the reverse with Bootdiscs of various kinds before and gotten either total failure, or failure to hand off to the main application after the bootloader.

 

[Kerplunk]

its alright i sorted it now anyway

 

[bledd]

wanna share how incase someone else has the problem?

 

[sneakypenguin]

I had a similar problem. When my old mobo died had to reinstall vista. No matter what I did it wouldn't let me format my primary hdd (bsod when booting from dvd). What I did was slide in an old 6gb ide hdd, install xp onto that, back up my primary hdd onto my secondary drive (not the 6gb one) then format my primary hdd using xp.

Once that was done, unplug every drive except for my primary and install vista, real pain in the bum.