I bought the PC parts and just assembled them myself but when I insert the disk contains win 7 x64 downloaded from Repository, it shows "reboot and select proper boot device or insert boot media in selected bootdo device and press a key" First I thought it sth wrong with my hardware so i go to Bios, the motherboard does detect my CDROM and Hard Drive, configure SATA as IDE(you can aslo choose RAID, AICH, i don't know the differecen) primary IDE master : not detected primary IDE slave: not detected secondary IDE master: CDROM secondary IDE slave: not detected third IDE master: not detected fourth IDE master: Hard Disk and CDROM is first boot, hard disk second boot. i also checked the wire they are firmly connected. So is there sth wrong with the win7 disk? I just burned the iso into the DVD room. my motherboard is EVGA SLI P55
Look at BOOT order in BIOS settings. Or just after you switch it on, you may be able to press a key like ESC to override boot order and select the DVD/CD drive.
Basically you drag and drop the iso file into your chosen burning program. Then you need to extract the files, once this is done you have a bootable image which you can then burn to disc.
The ISO is a 'container' of sorts--like a Zip or Rar file...but in your case, do not attempt to deconstruct it--you may not end up with a bootable DVD. Use the program to burn it as suggested by urie above and you will be fine.
Easiest way is just open the iso file with your burning program and burn dvd, Do Not Extract it if you extract the files it is not bootable.
True enough Urie, although sometimes it is necessary to extract. For instance, i have a win7 reapair disc iso which if i drop into power iso it shows non bootable image, however extract it and oila ... bootable image ready to burn. Not trying to confuse anything here btw ......
ImgBurn: Write image file to disc. Works every time. Never had problems with burnt discs not being bootable. As well ImgBurn is smart and if you try burning an ISO as a lone file on a data disc it will prompt. Code: --------------------------- ImgBurn --------------------------- You've only selected 1 file and it looks like it's an image file! C:\Windows7.iso You're in 'Build' mode, are you sure you want to create a backup of this image file rather than just burning it normally? Note: If you want to burn it normally, click 'No', switch to 'Write' mode and then try again. --------------------------- Yes No ---------------------------