Vista installation disk not reading, DVD drive AND DVD disk is good

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Yudai

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Hi there,
first off I wasn't sure where to post but my guess is it's a driver problem so that's why I started the post in Drivers section. So here's the brief story..

I'm presently running Windows 7 and I'd like to switch to Windows Vista 32 bit. I have both Vista Home Premium and Vista Business, however the two CD's won't read, neither while logged on windows, or when I try to boot the disk after bios booting (yes, I set CD/DVD drive as first in booting sequence).

I'll say in advance, I deleted the windows.old folder so now I can't revert to Vista that way.

I would say it's the CD/DVD drive, but I've inserted other CD's/DVD's and they were read completely with no trouble. As well as, I'd say it's my Vista disks that are bad but the business disk was sealed in the original "paper cover/container", therefore there are no scratches or damage to the disk.

I want to also mention that windows update is up to date.

I'm running on a Dell Studio 1535, any thoughts on what might be preventing me from reading and installing Windows Vista?
 

My Computer

System One

I want add that another thought of mine is that the disk won't read until the hard drive is completely wiped, but I'm not sure if that's how Vista installation disks are configured and if wiping my hard drive will help..
 

My Computer

System One

Where did you get these other disks from? Are they either retail or from the same manufacturer as your system? If not than you can't use them per the user agreement. Not only is the install specific for the system it came with but it may be programmed not to install. Only a retail disk can be installed on any system.
 

My Computers

System One System Two

  • Operating System
    Windows 8.1 Industry Pro x64
    Manufacturer/Model
    HP Pavillion Elite HPE-250f
    CPU
    Intel i7 860 Quad core 2.8 ghz
    Memory
    8 gb
    Graphics card(s)
    ATI Radeon HD 5770 1 gb ram
    Monitor(s) Displays
    Alienware 25 AW2521HF
    Screen Resolution
    1920x1080 &1680x1050
    Hard Drives
    1 TB x2
    Other Info
    https://www.cnet.com/products/hp-pavilion-elite-hpe-250f/
  • Operating System
    Windows 2012 R2 Data center/Linux Mint
    Manufacturer/Model
    Dell Poweredge T140
    CPU
    i3 9100 3.6GHz, 8M cache, 4C/4T
    Memory
    8GB 2666MT/s DDR4 ECC UDIMM
    Screen Resolution
    1680x1050
    Hard Drives
    1 TB & 360 GB x2
    Other Info
    https://www.dell.com/en-us/work/shop/productdetailstxn/poweredge-t140?~ck=bt
The two Vista disks (Home Premium and Business) came with my dell laptop. Could it be that a clean install will fix the issue? If so what will work best to wipe my hard drive? I've tried DBan to wipe it but I came up with the common error PCI (sysfs), which is caused by the media card reader. I've looked over a douzan times in the bios to disable the media card reader for my studio 1535 but I found nothing.

I'm assuming the Vista disk will work again once my hard drive is wiped, does anyone know of a good program that will wipe my hard drive clean?
 

My Computer

System One

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