vista installation problems

hello everyone, I just put together a new computer and ran into some
problems when trying to install vista home premium x64.

it just won't boot. I set my dvd drive as the first bootable device,
and it tries to find a bootable cd, but fails.

I don't think it's the hardware, since I just popped in an old windows
xp cd, and the system recognized it and booted.

Is this a well known problem? any known fixes or guesses as to what the
problem might be?

thank you.


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coldertopic

This may sound simple but is your drive a DVD drive, not a cd drive. The
Vista installation disk is a DVD. You can get a cd rom for shipping cost if
your version is a retail version
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Quad Core


"coldertopic" wrote:

>
> hello everyone, I just put together a new computer and ran into some
> problems when trying to install vista home premium x64.
>
> it just won't boot. I set my dvd drive as the first bootable device,
> and it tries to find a bootable cd, but fails.
>
> I don't think it's the hardware, since I just popped in an old windows
> xp cd, and the system recognized it and booted.
>
> Is this a well known problem? any known fixes or guesses as to what the
> problem might be?
>
> thank you.
>
>
> --
> coldertopic
>