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I would like to try to install Windows 8.1 onto a computer with an old Motherboard. Not that it matters, but the Motherboard is an ASRock P4S61
When I try to boot from the Windows 8.1 installation DVD, the computer refuses ... giving me the message: "Cannot boot from CD - Code: 5"
I think that this question has been asked ( and answered ) previously in this forum ... but I didn't quite understand the answer.
http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/288137-30-6728-boot-boot-code
In that thread, hawkshaw86 said that you could get the computer to boot from a Windows 7 CD by replacing the "boot file" with a Vista Boot File. I think that would work for me, because my computer WILL boot from a Vista DVD ( but not from a Windows 7 or Windows 8 DVD ).
Can someone please tell me which file hawkshaw86 was referring to ? The way hawkshaw86 was talking, it sounded like this replacement operation might be tricky.
When I try to boot from the Windows 8.1 installation DVD, the computer refuses ... giving me the message: "Cannot boot from CD - Code: 5"
I think that this question has been asked ( and answered ) previously in this forum ... but I didn't quite understand the answer.
http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/288137-30-6728-boot-boot-code
In that thread, hawkshaw86 said that you could get the computer to boot from a Windows 7 CD by replacing the "boot file" with a Vista Boot File. I think that would work for me, because my computer WILL boot from a Vista DVD ( but not from a Windows 7 or Windows 8 DVD ).
Can someone please tell me which file hawkshaw86 was referring to ? The way hawkshaw86 was talking, it sounded like this replacement operation might be tricky.
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