I figured it out. You have to make the .iso file (windows) bootable before copying it to a DVD disc. I use powerISO and go under settings and make it "bootable". It works like a charm. Also, make sure to run bios and set CD-rom as first priority to boot
Now we're doing some old school moves, 01000111100010101011111000000100000111. Did you drink TAB and chew on Twislers and Skittles while you were breaking all this down? I love it! Great job!
Yup that would be why man. The cmos battery will let the bios remember settings so if there aint anything to remember what u told it to do then i doubt it would boot from disc. Hope this helps.
Yup that would be ur problam man. The cmos battery lets your bios remember settings so if it cant remember it aint gonna boot from disc. Hope this helps man.
No problem. Great, i replaced my battery and it working perfect in terms of the bios settings. However my CD-Rom drive does not boot. The CD-ROM is currently set to the highest priority on the bios boot screen. The cd is a CD-R is being read as the LED is breathing, however it doesnt boot. Even my official XP Pro installation CDs dont boot :X Im trying to mod my XBOX. And the files that are booted are used to mod the xbox to run DVDs, Music and Emulators. Just side info if your wondering.
My problem is I put my cdrom as first boot with no 2nd or 3rd boot device (i.e. hard drive), save settings and exit CMOS. Then instead of booting from my win7 disc, it just gives me a message saying "boot failure: system halted". I go change it back to my hard drive as the first boot device and I get taken to windows. The cdrom works while in Windows , but refuses to boot the disc to allow me to reformat my hard drive.
What are you trying to boot into? If it's something you've burned/compiled make sure it's working, and if you only have a CD compatible drive you wont be able to boot from any DVDs.
well if its vista, aparently vista doesnt boot from cd. or if that isnt the problem then try magicISO to burn the disc it is most likely the fix to ur problem.
Have an 1996 tecra 500CDT and the three things to go to change the boot drive are not bringing up the screen and only f12 brings shows Ready for Bios update diskette in the drive and press any key when ready to proceed.
Thanks for making your video, its really great that you give your time to help others :) The problem I am having is whilst in the Bios, with my USB device selected and highlighted, the negative and positive key are not changing the position, so I am unable to shift the USB to first or top priority. I haven't been able to find any button that shifts it up. Though it does specify in the bios directions that these are the correct buttons, I have one laptop the hardrive has just gone and a week later the other laptop hardrive is about to go, quite quickly it seems! So I am in a race against time, to not leave myself without a laptop :) much appreciation if you can help, please, thankyou, Clare
Hey, thanks for the kind words. What make and model is your laptop? The keys to move them can differ slightly from laptop to laptop, try keys like up/down arrow, pg. up/pg. down (found by the numeric keypad on the right), sometimes you have to hover over the option you want, select it (usually with enter) and then select where you want it to move. And if you have a newer laptop with UEFI bios you can use your mouse in it. Hopefully one of these options will help you.
You're welcome :)Thanks so much for quick response :) Its a Zoostorm w251EU intel core i5, 16gig ram, 1tb hardrive. Im not sure how to use mouse, without being able to install the drivers..I have been hitting enter on the USB Device BBS Priorities, even though I havent moved it to the top of the boot list, as I seemed unable to do anything else. What I see in bios I will list here; Boot option #1 Boot option #2 Boot option #3 CD/DVD ROM Drive BBS Priority Hard Drive BBS Priorities USB Device BBS Priorities OS Select
+Clare Brown Have you set a password on the bios? If you have it may have locked those options. Does your bios look blue and white like the one in the video, or is it fancy and more graphical? Another option you may have is when you're booting up the laptop you can hit F12 and do a one-time boot change, and from there select USB (or could be F7, F11, or F8 depending on your motherboard) You'll need to have a bootablec USB inserted for it to detect.
Right, the only thing It brought up was; please select boot device: P2: TSSTcorp CDDVDW SN-208DB P0: ST1000LM024 HN-M101MBB General UDisk 5.00 use arrows to move selection Enter to select boot device ESC to boot using defaults Everything else just took me back to windows start, set up, which of course it is unable to do. If this is getting too annoying for you now, or your stuck now like me then no worries, you don't have to help anymore :) Bt thanks for your time :)
how to install operating system if the CD ROM isn't working, what do i need to do next after i change the boot order to USB and still the operating system that i put inside the USB drive cannot be recognised by the computer?
mine does not look like that. also, when i set my version of your screen to boot cd before hdd it doesnt read the cd. im trying to run an image i burned to my cd to delete my admin password bc its locked me out.
Thanks for the video :) I have a question, how can I reduce my video card for example, I have 8 GB RAM and 64 MB video card (shared) so the total video card is 1 GB I want to reduce it, and I couldn't find anything related to it in BIOS system
Hey I have a compaq mini and it says change boot device order or BIOS setup options I have tried F2, F8 and F12 also delete to get it into safe mode and it won't go...nothing happens when I push F9 oe 10 either! PLEASE HELP!!!!!!!!!!!!
I have tried about 20 times. I have gone into my BIOS and made the CD ROM the first, as well as USB the first. I have a burned DBAN on 2 different CD's. I have also put it onto a USB stick. Every time I reboot computer, DBAN does not start, Windows XP starts. ANy suggestions?
Hi, I have a proble when I Want to move up or down a device. Instructions says that "n" change beetween hard disk and others, but doestn´t work. With "+" or "-" doestn´t work either. what key can I use?
Thanks for the reply. Nope, i trying to boot from an XP and yea i used MagicISO. Though one source may be my BIOS Battery. Its dead. Maybe thats the problem? Well im not sure if its called a BIOS Battery or CMOS battery but that flat circular battery on the motherboard. It died a while ago. Should i go replace that?
If any of you have an HP Pavilion (mine is dv5) and none of these keys let you access your BIOS, then I can help.. It isn't F2 or any of those, its the esc key, to the left of F1 :D
this is pissing me off..... i burned an iso file on a cd and it when i restart, it wont boot, it! i've tried what you did on the video and nothing... help?
Dear Sir, I have problem in my redhat server. my server automatically reboot... and I am checking logs but not create logs related reboot my server..plz help me..
i actually found out what i had to do..it was SATA-CD-rom.. anyway what do u mean? bot? u mean bought? i really did not understand this please answer again xD if u are talking about piracy, i am too used to it to give it up now :P! anyway the anti virus did not work...any ideas for this? EXCEPT formatting...i have that in mind.. i am planning to format my D: drive and not C: i hope that keeps my old files...
i cant boot my pc by a dvd disc. i set the boot menu but when i do restart, the word PRES ANY KEY TO BOOT FROM CD. is not workingit continuing restarting my pc.. can u help me?? plss help.. i need to format my pc... tnx
I have 1 prob...i also have XP but my Bios menu is different...it dowsn't have those categories ,,boot order etc but has some options...it says first boot device,,second boot device,third boot device and boot from other device(which is disabled)...i'm trying to put cdrom as a first boot device and when i restart it doesn't give me to press a key to boot like it should...do you know what's going on??thx
Hey exoploit nice vid i hav a ques if i have to install win8 from usb (i have legal iso and key with bootable drive) so do i have to keep mu usb drive option on top or something else? Plz reply.
win i have my disk in my drive it gets to the part where it is supose to say press any key to boot but it just says no emulation can anyone help with that problem im having
Can U plz help me i did all this to install windows xp now i have it install bt the boot screen for the cd keep appearing i changed the first boot device back to harddrive n it still loads the cd boot screen i evn saved it after i clicked esc can u plz help me how to start my pc?
ok maybe someone will answer this so i am going to give it a go. using windows xp, the p2(or what ever its called it isnt working only after bootup same as my usb keyboard) i want to reinstall windows but i cant change the boot order.i can get into bios but no further mode.tried with wireless keyboarand bunch other working usb and old jack keyboards.i dont need any stupid answer like hey get keyboard,reset bios or god knows what.i want to know how to change the order editing boot.ini or others.
@EvilOne13805 I think your hard drive has been wiped clean somehow. That happened to me once. You can check by inserting Win Xp installation CD. The worst is that you will have to reinstall Windows :(
Ok when i get to the boot tab i don't even have any of that stuff.I need to fix my computer because i downloaded a custom version of Windows XP. It worked fine until i downloaded IE8 and restarted. I got this message saying that windows has encountered a problem that is making windows not to beable to activate it And that is probally from the custom windows. I was lucky i burned the REAL Windows XP before this happened. I need to get this fixed. CAN SOMEBODY PLEASE HELP ME WITH THIS PROBLEM!
lucky for you. I have the problem still :X I compiled and burned onto CD-R. I wanted to boot from a CD-R + CD/RW Compatible drive. When my computer restarts it doesnt boot :/ Anyone know why?
I have a dell latitude e6400 ,trying to repair it self, but it saying Windows cannot repair it self automatically,I try booting windows 7 and it say cannot boot from cd error code 5 ,can anyone help me please? Thanks.
hey can someone help me out my Compaq Windows XP doesnt want to start when i turn it on i try to fix the bios in the boot option but it doesnt seem to have that. my computer freezes on thw windows xp loading page and sometimes it keeps restarting it self. it always asks me to either choice safe mode, start normaly or start when it was working options and i tried all but they still freeze HEEELLLPPPPP!!!!!PLZ
hey dude mine has two choices! sata cd-rom and USB Cd-rom... something like that! what should i go first? please answer me my computer got a virus and now i am trying to use a bootable anti virus bart cd .. please dude i really need ur help!
Was intructed to contact DELL for a BOOT ORDER by microsoft,,,,,,,, am trying to upgrade to windows 7 ultimate, from window vista home permium,,,,,,,,,,,, new upgrade NOT LOADING ..... ADVICE ???????? THANK YOU.........
Nevadasdoc Are you installing from a DVD? If so you have to change your boot order so that the DVD is first in your list. Can you get into the BIOS? Pressing F12 a bunch of times when you power on your Dell should eventually bring up a menu where you can enter the BIOS.
Thank you. I am sure that you put lots of work into helping many people and don't hear "thank you" very often.
I'm glad you enjoyed.
The reason the screen is so small is because it makes it easiest to read the text, and the images look sharper.
Dude, you ROCK! Thanks, so much! I had no clue how to do this until I found your video!
Ron here just watched your video good job,easy to follow !
I figured it out. You have to make the .iso file (windows) bootable before copying it to a DVD disc. I use powerISO and go under settings and make it "bootable". It works like a charm. Also, make sure to run bios and set CD-rom as first priority to boot
Is there anyway i can do this with a bootable usb?
+Rider Notty rufus
Thanks i got it now
Now we're doing some old school moves, 01000111100010101011111000000100000111. Did you drink TAB and chew on Twislers and Skittles while you were breaking all this down? I love it! Great job!
Yup that would be why man. The cmos battery will let the bios remember settings so if there aint anything to remember what u told it to do then i doubt it would boot from disc. Hope this helps.
@DjDowney2k9 yes, I just used a different way to make a bootable DC copy and it worked like a charm without any BIOS changes
Yup that would be ur problam man. The cmos battery lets your bios remember settings so if it cant remember it aint gonna boot from disc. Hope this helps man.
the video didnt help much but the comments did tyvm :)
didn't help but i got it to work while your video was playing thx.
No problem. Great, i replaced my battery and it working perfect in terms of the bios settings. However my CD-Rom drive does not boot. The CD-ROM is currently set to the highest priority on the bios boot screen. The cd is a CD-R is being read as the LED is breathing, however it doesnt boot. Even my official XP Pro installation CDs dont boot :X
Im trying to mod my XBOX. And the files that are booted are used to mod the xbox to run DVDs, Music and Emulators. Just side info if your wondering.
My problem is I put my cdrom as first boot with no 2nd or 3rd boot device (i.e. hard drive), save settings and exit CMOS. Then instead of booting from my win7 disc, it just gives me a message saying "boot failure: system halted". I go change it back to my hard drive as the first boot device and I get taken to windows. The cdrom works while in Windows , but refuses to boot the disc to allow me to reformat my hard drive.
What are you trying to boot into? If it's something you've burned/compiled make sure it's working, and if you only have a CD compatible drive you wont be able to boot from any DVDs.
you can't - bios settings are stored on the chip on the motherboard - not in a file
Excellent my friend...youre a life saver!!!
thanks for help with installing bios do not know English, but thank you very much
thanks again, but it was just a rookie mistake and the problem was that i didnt burn it properly :P
but still grateful for ur reply
damn man, that was really helpful, i was finally able to format my computer
liked and fav'd!
well if its vista, aparently vista doesnt boot from cd. or if that isnt the problem then try magicISO to burn the disc it is most likely the fix to ur problem.
Have an 1996 tecra 500CDT and the three things to go to change the boot drive are not bringing up the screen and only f12 brings shows Ready for Bios update diskette in the drive and press any key when ready to proceed.
Thanks for making your video, its really great that you give your time to help others :)
The problem I am having is whilst in the Bios, with my USB device selected and highlighted, the negative and positive key are not changing the position, so I am unable to shift the USB to first or top priority. I haven't been able to find any button that shifts it up. Though it does specify in the bios directions that these are the correct buttons, I have one laptop the hardrive has just gone and a week later the other laptop hardrive is about to go, quite quickly it seems! So I am in a race against time, to not leave myself without a laptop :) much appreciation if you can help, please, thankyou, Clare
Hey, thanks for the kind words. What make and model is your laptop? The keys to move them can differ slightly from laptop to laptop, try keys like up/down arrow, pg. up/pg. down (found by the numeric keypad on the right), sometimes you have to hover over the option you want, select it (usually with enter) and then select where you want it to move. And if you have a newer laptop with UEFI bios you can use your mouse in it. Hopefully one of these options will help you.
You're welcome :)Thanks so much for quick response :) Its a Zoostorm w251EU intel core i5, 16gig ram, 1tb hardrive. Im not sure how to use mouse, without being able to install the drivers..I have been hitting enter on the USB Device BBS Priorities, even though I havent moved it to the top of the boot list, as I seemed unable to do anything else.
What I see in bios I will list here; Boot option #1
Boot option #2
Boot option #3
CD/DVD ROM Drive BBS Priority
Hard Drive BBS Priorities
USB Device BBS Priorities
OS Select
+Clare Brown
Have you set a password on the bios? If you have it may have locked those options. Does your bios look blue and white like the one in the video, or is it fancy and more graphical? Another option you may have is when you're booting up the laptop you can hit F12 and do a one-time boot change, and from there select USB (or could be F7, F11, or F8 depending on your motherboard) You'll need to have a bootablec USB inserted for it to detect.
Right, the only thing It brought up was; please select boot device:
P2: TSSTcorp CDDVDW SN-208DB
P0: ST1000LM024 HN-M101MBB
General UDisk 5.00
use arrows to move selection
Enter to select boot device
ESC to boot using defaults
Everything else just took me back to windows start, set up, which of course it is unable to do. If this is getting too annoying for you now, or your stuck now like me then no worries, you don't have to help anymore :) Bt thanks for your time :)
none of the looked very usb ish to me :)
Yeah, Thanks for this video you helped me alot.
sorry for posting twice!
Thank you so much. It is working.
thanks soo much i got my windows working
floppy disc drive is probably the cd rom drive
thank u! u really saved me..
oh.. the live cd is burnt in a cd-r .. i don't know why it doesn't boot from there.. it's an external optical dvd drive
why am i asked the password when i click f2 ?
sir i have some questions to ask >>>>> what is the important / primary drivers need to install after installing the os? can u help me
i think you have to put removable devices at the top/above the hard drive. BTW im guessing that, not100% sure itts right.
Thanx man you are a god
thanks this helped greatly!
Yeah, it could be that your optical drive doesn't support DVD-rw
i know this is old but when i go to 1st boot it just says a whole bunch of codes and it won't boot from the disk
i can't boot the live cd although i've changed the boot order in the bios.. ahmm.. i think it doesn't support plug and play dvd-rw?
how to install operating system if the CD ROM isn't working, what do i need to do next after i change the boot order to USB and still the operating system that i put inside the USB drive cannot be recognised by the computer?
mine does not look like that.
also, when i set my version of your screen to boot cd before hdd it doesnt read the cd.
im trying to run an image i burned to my cd to delete my admin password bc its locked me out.
Thanks for the video :)
I have a question, how can I reduce my video card
for example, I have 8 GB RAM and 64 MB video card (shared) so the total video card is 1 GB
I want to reduce it, and I couldn't find anything related to it in BIOS system
I need help BECUASE whenever I try and go to the UEFI(bios) i can't change anything besides the date and Time I don't know why :( help me
Hey I have a compaq mini and it says change boot device order or BIOS setup options I have tried F2, F8 and F12 also delete to get it into safe mode and it won't go...nothing happens when I push F9 oe 10 either! PLEASE HELP!!!!!!!!!!!!
Thanxs buddy......
what? my boot tab is nothing like that, all it says is
>Boot Device Priority
NumLock [OFF]
Enable Keypad..... etc.
why is mine different?
I have tried about 20 times. I have gone into my BIOS and made the CD ROM the first, as well as USB the first. I have a burned DBAN on 2 different CD's. I have also put it onto a USB stick. Every time I reboot computer, DBAN does not start, Windows XP starts. ANy suggestions?
so to change the orther after the windows startup.i hope you do understand i dont want to change it in BIOS!!!!
maybe it will appear in the setting.. (your usb)
thanks
helped me alot
Thank you
ty so much ... its so much useful ,,,, thx
Hi, I have a proble when I Want to move up or down a device. Instructions says that "n" change beetween hard disk and others, but doestn´t work. With "+" or "-" doestn´t work either.
what key can I use?
How do I get the hardrive back on the boot priority list if I disabled it?
Can u make a video how to download the ISO file and burn to a DVD and boot that way
Thanks for the reply.
Nope, i trying to boot from an XP and yea i used MagicISO.
Though one source may be my BIOS Battery. Its dead. Maybe thats the problem? Well im not sure if its called a BIOS Battery or CMOS battery but that flat circular battery on the motherboard. It died a while ago. Should i go replace that?
If any of you have an HP Pavilion (mine is dv5) and none of these keys let you access your BIOS, then I can help.. It isn't F2 or any of those, its the esc key, to the left of F1 :D
this is pissing me off..... i burned an iso file on a cd and it when i restart, it wont boot, it! i've tried what you did on the video and nothing... help?
I just get Error #1833
Error: One (and only one) partition must be selected. Please reply and help me with this as fast as possible.
Question!!!
Can u also set ur BIOS back to default like it was at the very beginning?
Dear Sir,
I have problem in my redhat server. my server automatically reboot...
and I am checking logs but not create logs related reboot my server..plz help me..
i actually found out what i had to do..it was SATA-CD-rom.. anyway what do u mean? bot? u mean bought? i really did not understand this please answer again xD if u are talking about piracy, i am too used to it to give it up now :P! anyway the anti virus did not work...any ideas for this? EXCEPT formatting...i have that in mind.. i am planning to format my D: drive and not C: i hope that keeps my old files...
i cant boot my pc by a dvd disc. i set the boot menu but when i do restart, the word PRES ANY KEY TO BOOT FROM CD. is not workingit continuing restarting my pc.. can u help me?? plss help.. i need to format my pc... tnx
hey, i got a dvd and a cd rom and trying to boot from dvd, but it always boots from cd, any solutions. thx
My computer is a Toshiba Satellite and in the boot menu all I see is 667mhz 4 times rather than CD/DVD is that bad?
i got up to the part that says save config F10 and the laptop shuts down after that ..... sigh
Yup
my CD rom is at the top, WinXP cd is in the CD rom although it just loads up my windows and that's it ...
i just accidentally disable my 2sc drive.. how can i restore it back??
i need to change the boot thing but its locked what do i do?
THANK YOU SOO MUCH!! :)
thanks m8, but i cant boot from cd even though it is the first boot device in the bios
I have 1 prob...i also have XP but my Bios menu is different...it dowsn't have those categories ,,boot order etc but has some options...it says first boot device,,second boot device,third boot device and boot from other device(which is disabled)...i'm trying to put cdrom as a first boot device and when i restart it doesn't give me to press a key to boot like it should...do you know what's going on??thx
Hey exoploit nice vid i hav a ques if i have to install win8 from usb (i have legal iso and key with bootable drive) so do i have to keep mu usb drive option on top or something else? Plz reply.
Thanks :)
win i have my disk in my drive it gets to the part where it is supose to say press any key to boot but it just says no emulation can anyone help with that problem im having
Can U plz help me i did all this to install windows xp now i have it install bt the boot screen for the cd keep appearing i changed the first boot device back to harddrive n it still loads the cd boot screen i evn saved it after i clicked esc can u plz help me how to start my pc?
ok maybe someone will answer this so i am going to give it a go. using windows xp, the p2(or what ever its called it isnt working only after bootup same as my usb keyboard) i want to reinstall windows but i cant change the boot order.i can get into bios but no further mode.tried with wireless keyboarand bunch other working usb and old jack keyboards.i dont need any stupid answer like hey get keyboard,reset bios or god knows what.i want to know how to change the order editing boot.ini or others.
@EvilOne13805 I think your hard drive has been wiped clean somehow. That happened to me once. You can check by inserting Win Xp installation CD. The worst is that you will have to reinstall Windows :(
ok, ill have to think about the problem a bit longer and i shall get back to u l8r, but it may just be that your drive isnt a bootable drive.
good one but i am having dell 700m an old gold lapi unable to install .O.S in to it
what i have to push to change cd-dvd rom
or hard drive up and down plz help
Ok when i get to the boot tab i don't even have any of that stuff.I need to fix my computer because i downloaded a custom version of Windows XP. It worked fine until i downloaded IE8 and restarted. I got this message saying that windows has encountered a problem that is making windows not to beable to activate it And that is probally from the custom windows. I was lucky i burned the REAL Windows XP before this happened. I need to get this fixed. CAN SOMEBODY PLEASE HELP ME WITH THIS PROBLEM!
lucky for you. I have the problem still :X
I compiled and burned onto CD-R. I wanted to boot from a CD-R + CD/RW Compatible drive. When my computer restarts it doesnt boot :/ Anyone know why?
How about this one:"read disk error occurred"
when I press f12 or f7 or f2 i hear a loun sound then nothing happens
u press more times
Please mine does't appear that. I hav windows vista what sould i do? Please
I have a dell latitude e6400 ,trying to repair it self, but it saying Windows cannot repair it self automatically,I try booting windows 7 and it say cannot boot from cd error code 5 ,can anyone help me please? Thanks.
Does this reboot? If so, does it delete all of my data?
thanks
cool video
how to set up BIOS setting ?
hi....I have lenovo s100 and there is bios password and i dnot know the password, how do I fix it please help me out....thnks for your vdio.
Is "CD-ROM group" the same as CD-ROM drive?
hey can someone help me out my Compaq Windows XP doesnt want to start when i turn it on i try to fix the bios in the boot option but it doesnt seem to have that. my computer freezes on thw windows xp loading page and sometimes it keeps restarting it self. it always asks me to either choice safe mode, start normaly or start when it was working options and i tried all but they still freeze HEEELLLPPPPP!!!!!PLZ
Hi done that but still no joy booting linux any ideas man
THX!:)
hey dude mine has two choices! sata cd-rom and USB Cd-rom... something like that! what should i go first? please answer me my computer got a virus and now i am trying to use a bootable anti virus bart cd .. please dude i really need ur help!
thank u...
none of the buttons you told me to press worked :(
l cant not get in to the bios please help
Was intructed to contact DELL for a BOOT ORDER by microsoft,,,,,,,, am trying to upgrade to windows 7 ultimate, from window vista home permium,,,,,,,,,,,, new upgrade NOT LOADING ..... ADVICE ???????? THANK YOU.........
Nevadasdoc Are you installing from a DVD? If so you have to change your boot order so that the DVD is first in your list. Can you get into the BIOS? Pressing F12 a bunch of times when you power on your Dell should eventually bring up a menu where you can enter the BIOS.