DVD player will not read Windows 7 DVD

[supernoob]

I just bought Windows 7 for upgrading my computer. But the DVD player in my PC will not install Windows 7 when reading DVD, neither 32-bit nor 64-bit disc that I have. DVD player reads all the other DVD's, but not Windows 7. There is no error message, the player just remains ideal. I have tested the Windows DVD in several other PCs, and these reads discs fine. Someone who knows this problem? Is it that player is not able to read the Windows 7 disk or there is some other problem with my player/computer?

[samar69]

not able to read

What do you mean by "not able to read"? How can you say that the player is not able to read your DVD? What comes on your screen? When you insert the disc in your PC, does it appears on My Computer? Can you see the DVD player in your Device Manager?

[Mayur_Jain]

Even I had the same problem once upon a time. What you must do is press F8 during boot to enter the motherboard BIOS and change the ranking of the first boot device to your CD/DVD drive. Save the changes that you have made recently and restart your computer. It should work and then you should be able to install Windows 7. If you don't want to keep your CD/DVD drive as your first boot device, then you can change it again after completing the installation.

[jesse]

I had exactly the same problem on an older (4-5 years?) laptop. The hard disk was empty, then while booting from CD/DVD I was prompted "no bootable CD in ATAPI CDROM". Initially I thought that the laptop was struggling to read the DVDs (when the XP CD works fine, but it is the CD, not DVD. DVD discs acted earlier when XP was installed, so I'm sure there is a dvd player in it).

Then I attempted to make a USB stick with Windows 7. Come a little longer, but halt at the "Windows is loading files" with an error message.

File: \Boot\BCD
Status: 0xc000000e
Info: An error occurred while attempting to read the boot configuration data.

USB stick (and DVD disc) works fine spectacle in 4 other computers I've tried, but just not this one.

[supernoob]

"not able to read"

By that I mean it happens to me when I insert the DVD, the player tries to read the DVD, but only makes an ugly sound over and over again. It does not appear in My Computer. I can see my DVD player on Device Manager (so DVD player is properly connected to my computer).

[sereshk]

In case someone looks for a possible solution: perhabs this is another instant of the error also known as "Code 5"-error?
Albeit you should see the corresponding error-message on the black/a white start-screen, you might 'google' for something similar, namely:

Some motherboards do not start with the bootsector on Windows 7-DVDs.
There's a workaround by copying your Windows 7-DVD to the harddrive and then including a Vista-bootsector before burning and trying again... Just look around, the exact link escapes me at the moment.

Worked for me with an older computer and an ASRock-motherboard.