Re: DVD Drive does not boot W7 DVD- Supplimental


"Paul" <nospam@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:hgbd9t$ull$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
TVeblen wrote:
"Paul" <nospam@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:hgb41q$cm7$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
TVeblen wrote:
"TVeblen" <killtherobots@xxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:hgb19g$h0s$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
When I boot my computer with the Windows 7 Home Premium upgrade DVD in
the drive the boot gets to "CD ROM Boot Priority....Boot Ready_" but
does not proceed to "Press any key to boot from CD". I can hear the
drive spinning. I've pressed keys.
The boot order is correct: CD Drive first.
The DVD boots on 2 other computers (you get to the "Press any key to
boot from CD" message) - the DVD is good.
The other computers have a single legacy hard drive and legacy DVD
writers.

This system:
Asus P6T motherboard with i7-920 CPU- 6GB RAM
Two WD SATA Black hard disks - 5 + 3 partitions all NTFS
Samsung SH-S223F 22x SATA Burner - DVD +R -R *RW -RW -RAM -ROM
Floppy Drive
Rig has been running XP without a hitch for 9 months

Any ideas why it won't boot from DVD?


The computer boots from CD's fine: Acronis, Ubuntu, XP. I don't have
other DVD-Bootable to test.
OK, got a suggestion here.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductReview.aspx?Item=27-151-171&SortField=0&SummaryType=0&Pagesize=100&SelectedRating=-1&PurchaseMark=&Page=2

Mike 2/27/2009 6:27:26 PM

Cons: This DVD player stopped working after one month of use. I
started
doing some investigating and there is a known problem where the
drive will stop working with DVDs and only work with CDs.
Samsung
is aware of this problem and said a firmware upgrade would fix
it.
Unfortunately this is not the case (at least it didn't help
me).
I will not be buying a samsung DVD player again. Don't be
fooled.

Do other kinds of operations work OK with that drive. Can you
burn a DVD on it ? If you use one of those tools that scans
for errors (PI/PO) on a recently burned DVD, does that work
OK ? If you have a burner program, can you get the burner program
to make an ISO out of the Win7 DVD (copy to a file) ?

*******

I took a quick look at the Asus forum, and don't see a trend there to
suggest
the motherboard is the problem. I didn't go through all the threads.

http://vip.asus.com/forum/topic.aspx?board_id=1&model=P6T&SLanguage=en-us

HTH,
Paul

Hey Paul - Thanks for the info. So I should suspect a faulty DVD drive
and go from there?
I did some tests and the drive will recognize a blank DVD-R and Nero
CD-DVD Tool will run it's tests. And A DVD movie will play from the
desktop.
Is there anything different about reading DVD's when booting?
I will try burning a DVD later to see if that works.

Anyone out there install W7 on a P6T with a SATA DVD drive?


So is the Windows 7 disc readable from WinXP ? Can you explore it ?
I would think, if you can read the media while in WinXP, maybe it
isn't a laser problem.

For that matter, you did say "Upgrade DVD". Doesn't that mean
you run it while booted in the qualifying OS ? Like, run
a setup.exe from the media. The media probably isn't bootable!
(No boot sector or whatever is used for booting.)

It may not be like previous upgrades, where you could boot
the media and have it check for a qualifying OS. Maybe this
one requires you to start the install while you're booted from
WinXP. I hope it doesn't trash WinXP as part of the install...

Paul

Thing is, it does boot from CD on the other computers, that is, I get the
"press any key" bit. To upgrade from XP *requires* a clean install (format,
wipe, etc. XP off the disk). Only Vista can be upgraded in place. Not that I
would ever do that.
When I load the CD from the desktop I get this ominous message: "This
installation disk isn't compatible with your version of Windows. To Upgrade,
you need the correct installation disk. For more information, check your
computer's system information. To install a new copy of Windows, restart
(boot) your computer using the installation disk, and then select Custom
(Advanced)."
Everything I've read told me that you must install from the installation CD
at bootup. I ran the MS Upgrade Advisor and, of course, there were no major
issues with my machine.
I can read the files on the DVD from Windows XP desktop Explorer. The root
of the DVD has autorun.inf , bootmgr , bootmgr.efi , and setup.exe.
Perhaps I need to run setup.exe from a dos prompt?


.

Relevant Pages

  • Re: Leopard DVD Boot failure question
    ... Would the install DVD ... the DVD must first boot. ... the "Install Leopard" icon or after attempting to install Leopard. ...
    (comp.sys.mac.system)
  • Re: 2 Macs: FW Target DM questions
    ... You can put the Intel Mini into target mode and copy data onto its hard ... and install from there or will it only install from a DVD? ... You have to boot from the DVD to do the installation. ...
    (comp.sys.mac.system)
  • Re: Problem mounting DVD
    ... I booted using your floppy into Smart Boot Loader which listed 9 CD-ROM ... None booted using the FC5 DVD. ... the FC5 DVD image and install from there? ... then be able to use the DVD to install or, as before, use a network ...
    (comp.os.linux.setup)
  • Re: 64 bit downloading and kernel upgrade problem
    ... i first started fiddling around with linux and debian. ... Reboot and select proper boot device ... I would like to upgrade to 64 bit if ... I used 'apt-get install' to install appropriate kernel ...
    (Debian-User)
  • 64 bit downloading and kernel upgrade problem
    ... So initially i did a clean install by downloading minimum bootable ... Reboot and select proper boot device ... I would like to upgrade to 64 bit if ... So i went back to i386 and decided to upgrad my kernel because 'dmesg' ...
    (Debian-User)