Boot from CD, how in Windows 10?

Hi

Yes, the DVD works fine.

How do I find out about this - would this cause problems? "installed in UEFI Mode"

How can I fix this?





Thank you

Here it is

Thanks

Hi

Thanks for looking, I'll try this and let you know!

Hi there

If Boot freezes from the CD my reading on this is that the CD isn't properly bootable (not finalized when creating a Windows ISO for example).

Note that a Windows Bootable CD is actually a "DVD" since a CD can have around 600MB as max - Windows "CD's" generally have around 3.5 GB's on them.

When you created the ISO did you select CD or DVD in the main menu (assuming you used something like NERO) .

The best way IMO would be to download the W10 media creation tool from Ms and create the ISO - then burn it to DVD with your burning software.

All this UEFI / EFI talk is a RED HERRING at this stage -- first see if the ISO BOOTS !!!! then we can go into other options for getting W10 installed.

I'm always amazed at how people don't follow problem solving in a logical fashion
1) see if DVD is bootable
2) Boot it
3) if no installable HDD's then we can look at the other options.

Do ONE thing at a time !!!!!!!! (from an old fashioned Engineer here - I'm afraid most modern education systems don't teach people enough BASICS !!!!!).


You will need to disable SECURE BOOT to boot from anything other than the HDD - that's different from EFI etc.

Also remove any other "spurious peripherals" such as SD cards, Mobile phones, external USB HDD's etc.

Cheers
jimbo

Thanks

Yes, the DVDs are fine, we tried 4 of them and they've been used to install many other PCs with Win7, but not so far with a Win10 PC.

We did disable Secure Boot, but this didn't help.

Could try to download Win7 to USB, perhaps that'll help, have to try to find this, thanks

essenbe said:

@jimbo45, I appreciate your education and basic problem solving, but...
He is trying to install Windows 7 not Windows 10.
The DVD has booted successfully in other machines, so it is bootable.
If UEFI is a 'Red herring' why advise to disable Secure Boot which is only applicable in a UEFI install.

Hi there
SECURE boot limits booting to the HDD.
Legacy boot allows boot whether UEFI or not. W7 / W10 DVD's will boot regardless of UEFI or non UEFI. Now some versions of W7 will only boot if the HDD is MBR -- W7 will recognize GPT HDD's but won't necessarily allow the boot HDD to be a GPT drive -- It's been a while since I tried to install W7 but there is stuff on that on the net -

W10 on the other hand doesn't have those problems. Normally the boot menu will show both the EFI and the non EFI boot when you boot say a W10 USB stick. You then choose whether to boot the UEFI or standard model.

SECURE BOOT gets in the way of this stuff -- IMO it's always better to disable the wretched thing -- why it was ever invented in the first place I don't know --causes no end of hassle,

I'd always enable LEGACY boot too -- that gives the most flexibility -- you can of course install a UEFI OS even if booting in "Legacy mode".

Cheers
jimbo

I did disable secure boot, but will enabling Legacy Boot.

Thanks!