I'm looking for a few answers to why I cannot boot from disc from my 64 bit home premium disc. Its been really frustrating not having an operating system at all (my XP disc is dead). I get the "please insert a system disc" error. If anyone knows what the problem may be, the help would be appreciated. I'm not looking forward to paying a tech 60 bucks to install vista for me.
64bit home premium
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orestes I am sorry and surprised that 6 hours has passed and nobody responded to you request for help. I hope you check back and see this.
If you cant boot from the Vista media you need to check a few things.
For one be sure you are putting it in a DVD drive. CD's with Vista are avalible but are usually special orderd unless you get lucky and find one on the shelve.
Check you systems BIOS and find the boot sequence and be sure your DVD/CD drive is set to be the first device your system attemps to boot.
With the Vista disk in your optical drive you may be able to press F12 during bootup to select the boot menu which would give you the option to boot from your DVD/CD drive as well.
From this point you now have a place to start. If none of these work I would try a different DVD drive.
Please post more information about your system as this my aid myself or others to help you further.
Good luck.
joel406
If you cant boot from the Vista media you need to check a few things.
For one be sure you are putting it in a DVD drive. CD's with Vista are avalible but are usually special orderd unless you get lucky and find one on the shelve.
Check you systems BIOS and find the boot sequence and be sure your DVD/CD drive is set to be the first device your system attemps to boot.
With the Vista disk in your optical drive you may be able to press F12 during bootup to select the boot menu which would give you the option to boot from your DVD/CD drive as well.
From this point you now have a place to start. If none of these work I would try a different DVD drive.
Please post more information about your system as this my aid myself or others to help you further.
Good luck.
joel406
My Computer
System One
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- My Ever Changing Whim!
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- Intel Core 2 Quad 9650
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- Intel DQ35JO
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- My main rig runs Vista Ultimate or Server 2008. Depending on which Acronis image I decide to load.
I found the problem. After an hour of looking through my BIOS i realized that my DVD-ROM was listed second on my drive list so I bumped it up. Even though my DVD optical was set to primary, it was trying to boot from the CD-ROM since it was in the 1 position. The BIOS on my A8N-SLI isn't what I'm used to but its all fixed now. Thanks.