Son got some components for Xmas - CPU, mobo, RAM, SSD. I have Windows 8.1 ISO on a DVD via my MSDN subscription.
We've hooked everything up and inserted the DVD. When we fire it up and enter the BIOS setup it says it can see the DVD drive. It whirs and then reports that no boot media is detected. I'm stumped on how to diagnose the fault. I'm also such on what options I have to use a different drive for the boot - I've got a portable hard drive but can't get the iso onto it because I have no machine with usable USB sockets.
Any ideas guys?
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What he said.
We had the same problem with a pc build and that was how we fixed it.
If the iso is just a single file sat on the DVD it won't work. You'll need an image burner to create the bootable DVD. Windows 7 has one built in but I'm not sure about older versions.
Offset "(Emp) - a little heavy on the hyperbole."
The iso was burned to disc with PowerISO and it shows up as a proper disc image and not just a collection of files.
Can you burn a linux live disc? Try booting into that so at least we can eliminate some factors
I've not used PowerISO but I'd think double clicking the ISO file will prompt you to insert a blank disc and burn the image - it's how the windows image burner works anyway.
In the BIOS it sometimes says it can see the DVD drive, other times it can't.
It's that unreliable behaviour that makes this hard to understand. I'm downloading a Linux ISO now, but my internet connection is shocking.
When plugged into SATA #0 i get a blue screen saying "Gigabyte - UEFI DualBIOS. NO bootable device is detected".
When plugged into SATA #1 I get a black screen saying "Reboot and Select pepper Boot device or Insert Boot Media in selected Boot device and press key"
I have had some trouble with the drive before but assumed it was the aging machine that was the root cause. I think we'll try a new one - they're cheap enough.
http://www.computerperformance.co.uk/win8/windows8-bootable-usb-drive.htm
I'm getting a touch pissed off with it. Shouldn't be this hard.