Solved My Vista DVD won't boot on start-up (already tried several trouble shooting steps)

[mdhauke]

I am having some problems with my drivers so I am trying to delete the partition on the operation system drive and do a fresh install, operating system and drivers. However, no matter what I do I cannot get my computer to boot from the windows vista DVD so I can delete the OS partition. Here is what I already tried:

- My BIOS is set to boot from CD ROM first

- I have tried both DVD drives

- I verified that the DVD is good by trying it in a different computer where it will boot from the DVD drive

- The DVD drive works because I can initiate installation from the DVD drive. But since it isn't on start-up, I cannot delete the partition and all the drivers.

How do I get this dang computer to recognize this DVD on boot?

Computer: Intel i7 950
RAM 12.0GB

 

[Brink]

Re: My Vista DVD won't boot on start-up (already tried several trouble shooting steps

Hello Mdhuake, and welcome to Vista Forums.


Here are some other ideas to try:

• Do you have another option in BIOS to select to boot from the DVD drive instead of CD ROM?
• Connect the drive to a different SATA port on the motherboard.
• Use a different data/power cable to see if it may be bad.
• Check to see if the DVD drive has a firmware update that may address this.
• Check to see if your motherboard has a newer BIOS version that may address this.

Hope this helps,
Shawn

 

[mdhauke]

Re: My Vista DVD won't boot on start-up (already tried several trouble shooting steps

Thanks for the reply.

It finally worked after I did something pretty obscure. I was in the BIOS and I changed the order of harddrive boot up. For some reason it had my data drive as #1 and my OS drive as #2. I switched it and after restart my computer finally loaded the Vista DVD on restart

 

[Brink]

Re: My Vista DVD won't boot on start-up (already tried several trouble shooting steps

Strange, but I'm happy to hear that you got it sorted. Thank you for posting back with your solution.